
Working on the Land
Nancy F. Cott(Editor)
De Gruyter Saur (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 6. July 1993
Book
Hardback
XIII, 484 pages
978-3-598-41460-2 (ISBN)
Description
Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.
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Edition
Reprint 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
891 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-598-41460-2 (9783598414602)
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
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