Midwest Farmer's Daughter : In Search of an American Icon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jack, Zachary Michael, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women farmers--Public opinion--Middle West.

Women farmers.

Farm life--Public opinion--Middle West.

Farm life.

Women farmers--Middle West.

Farm life--Middle West.

Women in mass media--United States.

Women in mass media.

Farm life in mass media--United States.

Farm life in mass media.

Popular culture.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland, OH, USA Purdue University Press 20120701

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: Pioneering Women

Part One

Chapter One: The Gingham Girl in the Google Age

Chapter Two: The Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Chapter Three: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?

Chapter Four: Raising Farmer Jane

Chapter Five: The Chores of Being a Farm Girl

Chapter Six: Welk Girls and Daisy Dukes

Chapter Seven: Milkmaids in Manhattan

Part Two

Chapter Eight: Little Houses on the Prairie

Chapter Nine: Future Farm Daughters of America

Chapter Ten: Ag-vocating Women

Chapter Eleven: Community-Supported Agriculture

Chapter Twelve: Female Farmers

Chapter Thirteen: Farmerettes in the Farm City

Chapter Fourteen: Her Daughter Has a Dynamo

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61249-219-3

OCLC:

803372397