Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Gender & American Culture) - Softcover

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Jellison, Katherine

 
9780807844151: Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Gender & American Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807844152 ISBN 13: 9780807844151
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women’s unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension agents and by home appliance manufacturers, were expected to create separate spheres of work in the field and in the house. These innovations, however, enabled women to work as operators of farm machinery or independently in the rural community. Jellison finds that many women preferred their productive roles on and off the farm to the domestic ideal emphasized by contemporary prescriptive literature. A variety of visual images of farm women from advertisements and agricultural publications serve to contrast the publicized view of these women with the roles that they chose for themselves. The letters, interviews, and memoirs assembled by Jellison reclaim the many contributions women made to modernizing farm life. Originally published in 1993. A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Katherine Jellison is assistant professor of history at Memphis State University.

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Verlag
University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807844152
ISBN 13 
9780807844151
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Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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