Putting the Barn Before the House : : Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York /

Putting the Barn Before the House : : Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York / / Nancy Grey Osterud.

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Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that fa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Osterud, Nancy Grey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 12 halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Gender, Power, and Labor
  • 1. Putting the Barn Before the House
  • 2. Women's Place on the Land
  • Part II. Farming and Wage-Earning
  • 3. "Buying a Farm on a Small Capital"
  • 4. The Transformation of Agriculture and the Rural Economy
  • Part III. The Division of Labor and Relations of Power
  • 5. Sharing and Dividing Farm Work
  • 6. Intergenerational and Marital Partnerships
  • 7. Wage-Earning and Farming Families
  • 8. Negotiating Working Relationships
  • Part IV. Organizing the Rural Community
  • 9. Forming Cooperatives and Taking Collective Action
  • 10. Home Economics and Farm Family Economies
  • Conclusion: Gender, Mutuality, and Community in Retrospect
  • Notes
  • Index

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