Bonds of Community : : The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York /

Bonds of Community : : The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York / / Nancy Grey Osterud.

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Osterud, Nancy Grey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1991
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: No Separate Spheres
  • Part 1. The Rural Community
  • 1. The Nanticoke Valley
  • 2. The Power of Kinship
  • Part II. Rural Women s Lives
  • 3. Courtship
  • 4. Childbearing
  • 5. Women without Husbands
  • Part III. Womens Work on Family Farms
  • 6. The Gender Division of Labor
  • 7. Work Relationships between Women and Men
  • 8. Work Relationships among Women
  • 9. Valuing Women's Work
  • Part IV. Patterns of Sociability
  • 10. Visiting with Folks and Friends
  • 11. Community Organizations
  • 12. Conclusion: Mutuality as an Empowerment Strategy
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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