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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. Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, gender norms, history, Norway, research, RWSA conference, Scandinavia, Sweden
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RWSA Triennial Conference 2021
Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum Continue reading
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? Continue reading
The Past, Present and Future of Rural Women’s Studies
RWSA blog editor Cynthia Prescott responds to reflections on her experiences in RWSA that she wrote for this blog following our last conference in 2015 and looks ahead to this year’s conference Continue reading
RWSA 2018 Call for Presentations and Papers
The Triennial Rural Women’s Studies Association (RWSA) conference is only about a year away! Check out the Call for Presentations here and on our web site. The deadline for proposal submissions is May 31, 2017, so put on your thinking bonnets, and start working on your proposals right away! We want the 2018 meeting to be the best one yet! Continue reading
Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas
Black women’s activism was a crucial part of the self-advocacy and efficacy necessary to improve conditions in Arkansas’s rural black communities. Continue reading
Preparing for the 2018 Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference
Preparing for the 2018 Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference The next Rural Women’s Studies Association triennial conference will be held May 17-19, 2018, at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, USA. In our last blog post, Cindy Prescott suggested several ways … Continue reading
Rurality, Feminism, and Appalachia: Possibilities and Prospects for Appalachian Feminism and Interorganizational Collaboration
What is Appalachian feminism? Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Appalachia, feminism, RWSA conference, sociology
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New Issue of AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Highlights Rural Women’s Studies
Essays based on superb papers presented at the 2012 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference, which span time and place, appear along with an introduction in the Summer 2015 issue of Agricultural History. Continue reading
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Tagged activism, family, farm labor, girlhood, history, migration, RWSA, RWSA conference, slavery, social reform
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The Past and Future of Rural Women’s Studies
Perhaps the greatest challenge that RWSA faces is to follow through on its founders’ vision of making RWSA an organization that brings together academics and grassroots activists. Continue reading