Opening windows onto hidden lives : women, country life, and early rural sociological research / Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Julie N., author.

Larson, Olaf F., author.

Series:

Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)

Rural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural--United States--History.

Sociology, Rural.

Rural women--United States--Social conditions.

Rural women.

United States--Rural conditions.

United States.

United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 221 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]

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.

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The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-212) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271056654

0271056657

OCLC:

1253313514