New Books
Feminist Biography and the Historical Narrative
Celeste Parrish was one of the most important educational reformers that you have never heard of.
New Books
New Book: Representing Rural Women
There is no one rural woman’s story, but a multiplicity of stories.
Uncategorized
Not Only a Farmer’s Wife: Searching for Rural Women
Changing perceptions of rural women require different research strategies.
Food Studies
On Feminism, Food, Fun, and Scholarship
Feminism, food, and fun made “Tamale Making and Storytelling” one of the most productive academic panels Salmanson has ever attended.
Activism
How Civic Responsibility, Nativism, and World War I Gave Women in the Midwest the Right to Vote
Civic responsibility combined with wartime nativist hysteria to give midwestern women the right to vote.
Uncategorized
Farm Women in Crisis Times: Rethinking Women’s Roles in the 1980s
The Farm Crisis of the 1980s was a time of upheaval in American agriculture, second only to the long depression of 1920-1940. The crisis affected many different facets of farm life, including farm women’s roles.
Conferences
RWSA 2018 Reflection: Historical methodology and the McLennan sisters
How, Samson asks, can we see Bell’s McLennan’s life through her husband’s diary, a diary near completely devoid of her perspective?
New Books
Rising Moon
Wild Mares, chronicles my journey through six lesbian-feminist land projects during the 1970s and ‘80s.
Athletics
Telling Their Stories: Women on Horseback
What I found surprised me … few actually want to change their position – either within the home or the rodeo arena.
Sexuality
TERF WARS – ARE WE REPEATING FEMINIST HISTORIES?
Even before the invention of social media networks, radical and lesbian feminists practiced exclusion within communities designed for “womyn-born women.”