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History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 6, Working on the Land /

History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 6, Working on the Land / ed. by Nancy F. Cott. - Reprint 2012 - 1 online resource (484 p.) - History of Women in the United States ; Volume 6 .

Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Working on the Land -- History from the Inside-out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America -- Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study -- The Ideal Woman in the Antebellum South: Lady or Farmwife? -- The Role and Status of the Female Yeomanry in the Antebellum South: The Literary View -- “Not Gainfully Employed”: Women on the Iowa Frontier, 1833–1870 -- Images of the Frontierswoman: Iowa as a Case Study -- "You May Depend She Does Not Eat Much Idle Bread": Mid-Atlantic Farm Women and Their Historians -- Forgotten Persephones: Women Farmers on the Frontier -- Autonomy and Dependency in the Lives of Dakota Women: A Study in Historical Change -- Female Planters and Planters’ Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 1850–1870 -- Black Women in American Agriculture -- Women Homesteaders on the Great Plains Frontier -- Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842–1867 -- “A Helpmate for Man Indeed” The Image of the Frontier Woman -- Women in the Agricultural Settlement of the Northern Plains -- Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision -- Single Women Homesteaders in Wyoming, 1880–1930 -- Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Woman’s Experience -- Farm Women’s Roles in the Agricultural Development of South Dakota -- “How’re You Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?”: Rural Women and the Urban Model in Utah -- “I’ve Worked, I’m Not Afraid of Work”: Farm Women in New Mexico, 1920–1940 -- The Ideal Rural Southern Woman as Seen by Progressive Farmer in the 1930s -- Copyright Information -- Index

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783598414602 9783110978162

10.1515/9783110978162 doi


Rural women--History.--United States
Women farmers--History.--United States
Women in agriculture--History.--United States
Women--History.--United States
Frau.
Geschichte.
USA.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.

HQ1419 / .H578 1993

305.43