Conferences
RWSA 2024 Conference Program
Join us May 15-19, 2024, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, for RWSA 2024!
Activism
From Garlic to Grocery: turning empty trucks into bigger business for rural Minnesota
How can we connect rural grocers and farmers to overcome food deserts?
Food Studies
Farm Women, Dairymaids, and the Welfare State: Story of an International Collaboration
International collaborations are very fruitful…offering new viewpoints on crucial questions about the present as well as the past.
Uncategorized
Not Only a Farmer’s Wife: Searching for Rural Women
Changing perceptions of rural women require different research strategies.
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
Legal Codes & Talking Trees
Through their gendered articulations of justice and power, each of these women challenged the legal violence of settler-colonial place-making in an era of dispossession, and rural communities continue to grapple with the legacies of these challenges in their efforts to not only survive, but thrive in the twenty-first century.
Religion
The Catholic Worker Farm in Tivoli, a View into the Past
The Catholic Worker Farm in Tivoli functioned as a farm, House of Hospitality, Folk School, a place for silent retreats, and peace conferences.
Sources for Research
Best of the Blogs: Museums of Minnesota
Many valuable collections remain undiscovered by researchers because they are held by county or local museums whose small staff and budget limit their ability to publicize and provide access to their holdings.
Conferences
When Scholars Collaborate: New Book on Rural Women
The essays in this volume profile women whose work was embedded in specific national contexts and together they form a collective biography of women who graduated into a world that was not always prepared to welcome them into the public life that professions demanded.
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?