Tag Archives: RWSA
RWSA, Africa Chapter, Marks International Day of the Girl Child
RWSA’s Africa Chapter sponsored lectures, interactive sessions, and counseling and distributed sanitary towels to empower adolescent girls. Continue reading
Call for Presentations and Papers–RWSA 2024
Gendered Advocacy and Activism, Shaping Institutions and Communities Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference Hosted by Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA May 15-19, 2024 Recent challenges to civil rights in various locations internationally bring to mind equity in rural … Continue reading
From COVID to Comfort: New Book Explores the Role of Women and the Kitchen in Rural Life
Whether you are a foodie or a gender or food studies researcher, you will find much to savor in this unique volume. Continue reading
Posted in Food Studies, New Books
Tagged cookbooks, cooking, foodways, history, primary sources, RWSA
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RWSA 2021 Virtual Conference
The Rural Women’s Studies Association’s triennial conference has gone virtual. Register today! Continue reading
RWSA Endorses Agricultural History Society’s statement on COVID-19 and Police Violence
RWSA endorses @AgHistorySoc statement on COVID-19 and Police Violence #COVID-19 #ruralwomen Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged activism, agricultural labor, COVID-19, pandemic, RWSA, violence
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2021 RWSA Conference Goes Virtual
The 2021 RWSA Triennial Conference is going virtual. We are excited to host a virtual conference that allows for a more diverse range of participants. 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
Teaching Reflection: Women and Rural Life
Teaching Reflection: Women and Rural Life Cherisse Jones-Branch, Ph.D. Arkansas State University-Jonesboro I have read substantially about women, agriculture, and rural life in the past few years. For that reason, in fall 2015, I decided to teach a course … 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
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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