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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 ; [foreword by Jess Gilbert].
- Author
- Zimmerman, Julie N.
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
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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
- Rural conditions
- Rural women > Social conditions
- Sociology, Rural
- Agrarsoziologie
- Landfrau
- Landleben
- United States > Rural conditions
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History.
- 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-- The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.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
- 0271037288
- 0271037296
- 9780271037295
- LCCN
- 2010018350
- 40018830752
- OCLC
- ocn612962161
- 612962161
- SCSB-1585064
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library