On behalf of the family farm : Iowa farm women's activism since 1945 / Jenny Barker Devine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devine, Jenny Barker.

Series:

Iowa and the Midwest experience.

Iowa and the midwest experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Iowa.

Families.

Frontier and pioneer life--Iowa.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In on behalf of the family farm, Jenny Baker Devine demonstrates that in an era where technology, depopulation and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, Midwestern women met those challenges with an activism that reflected their own feminine vision of farm life. Focusing on women in four national farm organizations in Iowa -- the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farmers Organization, and the Porkettes -- Devine highlights specific movements in time when farm women had to reassess their roles and strategies for preserving and improving their way of life."

Contents:

The rich gift of voluntary leadership : rural women's activism in Iowa

A natural process : women's leadership in township farm bureau clubs

Does your man belong to the Farmers Union? : Women and cold war politics in the Iowa Farmers Union

Because somebody had to do it : women, families, and the National Farmers Organization

Hop to the top with the Iowa chop : the Iowa Porkettes and transformative leadership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781609381707

160938170X

OCLC:

836401290