Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Larson, Olaf F.

Description

1. xiv, 221 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Rural studies series

Uniform title

1. Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)

Subject

1. United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life
2. Rural women > United States > Social conditions
3. Sociology, Rural > United States > History
4. Rural conditions
5. Rural women > Social conditions
6. Sociology, Rural
7. Agrarsoziologie
8. Landfrau
9. Landleben
10. United States > Rural conditions
11. United States
12. USA

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

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The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.