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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (484 p.)
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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