- Additional Authors
- Larson, Olaf F.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 221 p.)
- 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
- Uniform Title
- Opening windows onto hidden lives (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Opening windows onto hidden lives (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-212) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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 sociology in government : the Galpin-Taylor years in the the work of the 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-- The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished report (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.
- LCCN
- 2010018350
- OCLC
- ssj0000631255
- Author
Zimmerman, Julie N.
- Title
Opening windows onto hidden lives [electronic resource] : women, country life, and early rural sociological research / Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson.
- Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.
- Series
Rural studies
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-212) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Larson, Olaf F.