The rise of women farmers and sustainable agriculture / Carolyn E. Sachs, Mary E. Barbercheck, Kathryn J. Brasier, Nancy Ellen Kiernan, and Anna Rachel Terman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, Carolyn E., 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women farmers.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

xv, 196 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Summary:

A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. The authors' feminist agrifood systems theory (FAST) values women's ways of knowing and working in agriculture and has the potential to shift how farmers, agricultural professionals, and anyone else interested in farming think about gender and sustainability, as well as to change how feminist scholars and theorists think about agriculture.--COVER.

Contents:

A new crop: women farmers in a shifting agriculture

Tilling the soil for change: claiming the farmer identity

Sowing the seeds of change: innovative paths to land, labor and capital

Reaping a new harvest: women farmers re-defining agriculture, community, and sustainability

Constructing a new table: women farmers negotiate agriculture institutions and organizations, creating new agricultural networks

From the ground up: a feminist agrifood systems theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609384159

1609384156

9781609384166

1609384164

OCLC:

920672236