Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives

Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research

AvJulie N. Zimmerman,Olaf F. Larson

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The authors explore how these early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses of farm living, rural community social organization, and the agricultural labor force.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-02-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rural Studies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271037295

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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.

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“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

Innehållsförteckning

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