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The Invisible Farmers
The Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks suggesting women have no place in the ongoing farmers’ protests may have gone unnoticed in the 1960s. Today they appear astonishing in their lack of awareness about what the face of the Indian farmer looks like. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, politics
Tagged farm labor, female farmers, India, land ownership, opinion, protests, public policy
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Women Leading Landscape Change
Land is power. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Food Studies
Tagged activism, Environmental Studies, environmentalism, Iowa, land ownership, photography, storytelling, sustainability
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“This is all the home I now have”: Deserted and Widowed Homesteaders
Women homesteaders … pressed the bounds of imposed limitations with and sometimes without the help of their male counterparts. The women homesteaders in the Study Area also press the bounds of current homesteading scholarship. Continue reading
Posted in New Books, Sources for Research
Tagged family, history, homesteading, land ownership, law, migration
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Berks Panels of Interest, Part IV
Berks 2017 panels related to rural women Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged African diaspora, conferences, farm labor, history, land ownership, slavery
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Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part V: Indigenous Women’s Sources in Entangled Encounters
I have situated my research at the nexus of interactions between Dakotas and Scandinavian settler colonists. I have witnessed how their seemingly parallel lives—grounded in the land—intertwined and entangled. Continue reading
Posted in Sources in Rural Women's History
Tagged family farms, history, land ownership, migration, primary sources, sociology
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