| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) |
| Series |
Iowa and the Midwest Experience |
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Iowa and the Midwest experience
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| Contents |
This Rich Gift of Voluntary Leadership : Rural Women's Activism in Iowa -- As Natural a Process : Women's Leadership in Township Farm Bureau Clubs -- Does Your Man Belong to the Farmers Union? : Women and Cold War Politics in the Iowa Farmers Union -- Because Somebody Had to Do It : Women, Families, and the National Farmers Organization -- Hop to the Top with the Iowa Chop : The Iowa Porkettes and Transformative Leadership -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book traces the development of women's activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women's lives were being transformed by the realities of modern agriculture. The author demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with their own feminine vision of farm life. Their "agrarian feminisms" offered an alternative to, but not necessarily a rejection of, second-wave feminism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- Iowa
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Women political activists -- Iowa
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Women in agriculture -- Iowa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Women in agriculture.
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Women political activists.
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Women -- Political activity.
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Iowa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012950295 |
| ISBN |
160938170X |
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9781609381707 |
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