Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• Rural women > United States > Social conditions
• Sociology, Rural > United States > History
• United States > Rural conditions
• United States. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life

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-- The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.

ISBN

• 9780271037288 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0271037288 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010018350

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library