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Author Zimmerman, Julie N.

Title Opening windows onto hidden lives : women, country life, and early rural sociological research / Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson ; [foreword by Jess Gilbert].

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rural studies series
Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index.
Contents Hidden windows, hidden lives. Opening hidden windows ; "Agriculture is not the whole of country life" ; Women and rural society -;Finding women in the division's research ; The test of time -- Selected bibliography. Citations from the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 -- Reprints of selected publications. Woman's work on the farm (1917) ; The woman on the farm (1914) ; Recommendations of the Committee (1919) ; Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work (1920) / Charles J. Galpin ; The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished manuscript (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.
Summary "Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life.
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life.
Rural women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Rural women.
United States.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Rural -- United States -- History.
Sociology, Rural.
History.
United States -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Larson, Olaf F.
Other Form: Print version: Zimmerman, Julie N. Opening windows onto hidden lives. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010 9780271037288 (DLC) 2010018350 (OCoLC)612962161
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