History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 6, : Working on the Land / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: ALBERS, PATRICIA C.,; ARMITAGE, SUSAN,; ARRINGTON, LEONARD J.,; BAUMAN, PAULA M.,; BROWN, MINNIE MILLER,; BRYANT, KEITH L.,; FARAGHER, JOHN MACK,; FARAGHER, JOHNNY,; HAGLER, D. HARLAND,; HARGREAVES, MARY W. M.,; JENSEN, JOAN M.,; PATTERSON-BLACK, SHERYLL,; RILEY, GLENDA,; STANSELL, CHRISTINE,; STOELTJE, BEVERLY J.,; STURGIS, CYNTHIA,; TYLER, PAMELA,; WEBB, ANNE B.,; WIENER, JONATHAN M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (484 p.)

Table of Contents

Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Working on the Land -- History from the Inside-out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America -- Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study -- The Ideal Woman in the Antebellum South: Lady or Farmwife? -- The Role and Status of the Female Yeomanry in the Antebellum South: The Literary View -- “Not Gainfully Employed”: Women on the Iowa Frontier, 1833–1870 -- Images of the Frontierswoman: Iowa as a Case Study -- "You May Depend She Does Not Eat Much Idle Bread": Mid-Atlantic Farm Women and Their Historians -- Forgotten Persephones: Women Farmers on the Frontier -- Autonomy and Dependency in the Lives of Dakota Women: A Study in Historical Change -- Female Planters and Planters’ Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 1850–1870 -- Black Women in American Agriculture -- Women Homesteaders on the Great Plains Frontier -- Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842–1867 -- “A Helpmate for Man Indeed” The Image of the Frontier Woman -- Women in the Agricultural Settlement of the Northern Plains -- Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision -- Single Women Homesteaders in Wyoming, 1880–1930 -- Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Woman’s Experience -- Farm Women’s Roles in the Agricultural Development of South Dakota -- “How’re You Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?”: Rural Women and the Urban Model in Utah -- “I’ve Worked, I’m Not Afraid of Work”: Farm Women in New Mexico, 1920–1940 -- The Ideal Rural Southern Woman as Seen by Progressive Farmer in the 1930s -- Copyright Information -- Index