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Asenath’s Fiery Pen
Instead of retreating to their parlors and bemoaning their plight, women in Territorial Kansas advocated for themselves and their families in the face of loss.
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Tillie Baldwin: Immigrant Hairdresser Turned Bronco Buster Extraordinaire
Like many white women involved in rodeo, Baldwin both utilized and perpetuated common tropes about authentic western womanhood, while also cheekily resisting them.
New Books
New Book: Representing Rural Women
There is no one rural woman’s story, but a multiplicity of stories.
New Books
Uncovering Poverty and Resilience in the Great Flyover
In Heartland, Smarsh eloquently unpacks the harsh realities of the working poor in places that are simultaneously celebrated as the nation’s “heartland” and mocked as being part of the “great flyover.”
New Books
“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.
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The Hired Girl in Norwegian America
As a hired girl, I continued a long work tradition in Norwegian America that also hearkened back to Norway.
Cultural Identity
Empires, Nations, and Native Women
Anne Hyde gives us a sweeping yet intimate narrative of the worlds that Euro-American traders and Native peoples built in the early-nineteenth-century West. It should also serve as a call to arms.
Sources in Rural Women's History
“Dear Miss Cushman”: The Dreams of Eva McCoy, 1874
But was Eva McCoy exactly as she appeared? Was her careful appeal actually a careful manipulation of sympathy or did it conceal an even sadder truth?
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Story About a Man Named Jed: Gender Constructions in The Beverly Hillbillies
This story was about so much more than a poor mountaineer turned millionaire
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The YWCA: Creating a Moral Landscape on the Prairie
Prairie YWCAs were inclined to support the more conservative view of Christian salvation… However, the reality of supporting the needs of so many required pragmatic policies of action that later served as a template for larger urban counterparts after the onset of the Great Depression.