Opening windows onto hidden lives women, country life, and early rural sociological research

Zimmerman, Julie N. (Author). Larson, Olaf F. (Added Author).

Summary: "Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780271056654
ISBN: 0271056657
ISBN: 9780271055183
ISBN: 0271055189
ISBN: 0271037296
ISBN: 9780271037295
ISBN: 0271055995
ISBN: 9780271055992
ISBN: 9780271037288
ISBN: 0271037288
ISBN: 9780271037295
ISBN: 9780271055992
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages).
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Hidden windows, hidden lives. Opening hidden windows ; "Agriculture is not the whole of country life" ; Women and rural society -;Finding women in the division's research ; The test of time -- Selected bibliography. Citations from the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 -- Reprints of selected publications. Woman's work on the farm (1917) ; The woman on the farm (1914) ; Recommendations of the Committee (1919) ; Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work (1920) / Charles J. Galpin ; The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.