Food Studies
Submit Recipes and Essays to RWSA’s Cookbook
Sharing recipes that produce our favorite dishes is a form of intimate conversation.
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.
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?
Conferences
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
Conferences
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!
Activism
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.
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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 that you can help raise the visibility of rural women’s Read more
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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.