Putting the Barn Before the House : Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York.
Title:
Putting the Barn Before the House : Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York.
Author:
Osterud, Grey.
ISBN:
9780801464171
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Nanticoke Valley in the Early Twentieth Century -- Part I: Gender, Power, and Labor -- 1. Putting the Barn Before the House -- 2. Women's Place on the Land -- Part II: Farming and Wage-Earning -- 3. "Buying a Farm on a Small Capital" -- 4. The Transformation of Agriculture and the Rural Economy -- Part III: The Division of Labor and Relations of Power -- 5. Sharing and Dividing Farm Work -- 6. Intergenerational and Marital Partnerships -- 7. Wage-Earning and Farming Families -- 8. Negotiating Working Relationships -- Part IV: Organizing the Rural Community -- 9. Forming Cooperatives and Taking Collective Action -- 10. Home Economics and Farm Family Economies -- Conclusion: Gender, Mutuality, and Community in Retrospect -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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