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Agrarian Women and the Welfare State
Agrarian Women and the Welfare State Sommestad, Lena, translator Grey Osterud. Agrarian Women, the Gender of Dairy Work, and the Two-Breadwinner Model in the Swedish Welfare State. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Review by Sally McMurry, Professor Emerita of … Continue reading
Posted in New Books
Tagged dairy industry, farm labor, historical memory, history, politics, sociology, Sweden, welfare state
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Women’s Cooperative Farming in India
Can farming in all-women’s groups help women outperform individual male-managed farms in productivity and profits, and empower women socially and politically? Continue reading
Grandmothers and Granddaughters of the RWSA: What Generation Gap?
What works would you add to our rural women’s studies canon? Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, New Books
Tagged anthropology, farm life, history, Sexuality, sociology, suffrage
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TERF WARS – ARE WE REPEATING FEMINIST HISTORIES?
Even before the invention of social media networks, radical and lesbian feminists practiced exclusion within communities designed for “womyn-born women.” Continue reading
Posted in Sexuality, Uncategorized
Tagged activism, feminism, history, sexual identity, sociology
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Rurality, Feminism, and Appalachia: Possibilities and Prospects for Appalachian Feminism and Interorganizational Collaboration
What is Appalachian feminism? Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Conferences
Tagged activism, Appalachia, feminism, RWSA conference, sociology
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Sources in Rural Women’s History, Part V: Indigenous Women’s Sources in Entangled Encounters
I have situated my research at the nexus of interactions between Dakotas and Scandinavian settler colonists. I have witnessed how their seemingly parallel lives—grounded in the land—intertwined and entangled. Continue reading
Posted in Sources in Rural Women's History
Tagged family farms, history, land ownership, migration, primary sources, sociology
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Sources for Research: Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone, Radical Rural Sociologist
Olive “Polly” Matthews Stone (1897-1977) was a sociologist and advocate for social welfare, civil rights, and interracial relations in the South. Her life and career—with a focus on radical politics and social justice in rural societies, particularly during the 1930s—have largely been left unexplored Continue reading
Posted in Sources for Research
Tagged activism, archives, history, primary sources, sociology
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