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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.
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Notes from a RWSA conference newbie
By Ann Reed, University of North Dakota You know that notion about never seeing tourist sites in your town until an out-of-town guest visits and asks, “What is there to do around here?” Part of my reason for attending the RWSA conference was structurally analogous to that. Several individuals at Read more
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Looking Backward and Forward at Rural Women History
By Joan Jensen, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University It was the spring of 1977, and I was where I wanted to be. I was at a Land Grant University, teaching women’s history, and in my head a book on rural women was taking form. I had dropped out of Read more