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Author Sachs, Carolyn E., 1950- author.

Title The rise of women farmers and sustainable agriculture / Carolyn E. Sachs, Mary E. Barbercheck, Kathryn J. Brasier, Nancy Ellen Kiernan, and Anna Rachel Terman
Published Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement
Contents A new crop: women farmers in a shifting agriculture -- Tilling the soil for change: claiming the farmer identity -- Sowing the seeds of change: innovative paths to land, labor and capital -- Reaping a new harvest: women farmers re-defining agriculture, community, and sustainability -- Constructing a new table: women farmers negotiate agriculture institutions and organizations, creating new agricultural networks -- From the ground up: a feminist agrifood systems theory
Summary A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. The authors' feminist agrifood systems theory (FAST) values women's ways of knowing and working in agriculture and has the potential to shift how farmers, agricultural professionals, and anyone else interested in farming think about gender and sustainability, as well as to change how feminist scholars and theorists think about agriculture.--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-184) and index
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Subject Women farmers -- United States
Sustainable agriculture -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture
Women farmers
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Barbercheck, Mary, author
Brasier, Kathy, author
Kiernan, Nancy Ellen, author
Terman, Anna Rachel, author
LC no. 2015033642
ISBN 1609384164
9781609384166