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

Title
Opening windows onto hidden lives : women, country life, and early rural sociological research / Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson.
Author
Zimmerman, Julie N.
Publication
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Larson, Olaf F.
Description
xiv, 221 p.; 24 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Rural studies series
Uniform Title
Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
Subject
  • United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life
  • Rural women > United States > Social conditions
  • Sociology, Rural > United States > History
  • United States > Rural conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 -- The woman on the farm -- Recommendations of The Committee -- 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-- The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.
Call Number
JFE 11-469
ISBN
  • 9780271037288 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271037288 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010018350
OCLC
YBP 2010018350
Author
Zimmerman, Julie N.
Title
Opening windows onto hidden lives : women, country life, and early rural sociological research / Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson.
Imprint
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.
Series
Rural studies series
Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Larson, Olaf F.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-469
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