Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives

Julie N. Zimmerman is Professor of Rural Sociology in the Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky, and the Historian for the Rural Sociological Society.Olaf F. Larson is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

“Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives is essential reading for anyone interested in rural women's studies, and particularly rural women's history. Zimmerman and Larson have painstakingly excavated a treasure trove of materials vital to an informed understanding of American farm women in the first half of the twentieth century. Although the work in its entirety is impressive and very useful, the annotated bibliography alone makes the book worth reading.”—Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University; author of Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest

• ContentsForeword by Jess Gilbert, Past President, Rural Sociological SocietyPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Hidden Windows, Hidden Lives1.Opening Hidden Windows2.“Agriculture Is Not the Whole of Country Life”3.Women and Rural Society4.Finding Women in the Division’s Research5.The Test of TimePart 2: Selected BibliographyCitations from Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in the the Work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919–1953Part 3: Reprints of Selected Publications1.Woman’s Work on the Farm (1917)2.The Woman on the Farm (1914)3.Recommendations of the Committee (1919)4.Farm Life Studies and Their Relation to Home Economics Work (1920)Charles J. Galpin5.The Advantages of Farm Life: A Study by Correspondence and Interviews with Eight Thousand Farm Women: Digest of an Unpublished Report (1924)Emily Hoag SawtelleReferencesIndex