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All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 by Melissa Walker (Paperback, 2002)

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In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A post-war plunge in farm prices stretched into a 20-year agricultural depression and New Deal programmes eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women - forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life. Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by mid-century - yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801869242
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94947207

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Book Title
All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Up Country South, 1919-1941
Author
Melissa Walker
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Zoology, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g

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Title_Author
Melissa Walker
Topic Area
Social Work
Series Title
Revisiting Rural America
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United States

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