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Author: Linda M. Ambrose ,
Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Imprint: University of Iowa Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9781609384722
ISBN 10: 1609384725
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 February 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Contributors to this volume investigate an understudied topic: the role of professional women in modern Western agriculture. Their essays illuminate the partnership between women agriculturalists and the home economists, broadcasters, political activists, scholars, and other professionals who worked alongside them to improve food production and the quality of rural life. --Katherine Jellison, author, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913 1963
Contributors to this volume investigate an understudied topic: the role of professional women in modern Western agriculture. Their essays illuminate the partnership between women agriculturalists and the home economists, broadcasters, political activists, scholars, and other professionals who worked alongside them to improve food production and the quality of rural life. --Katherine Jellison, author, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 Contributors to this volume investigate an understudied topic: the role of professional women in modern Western agriculture. Their essays illuminate the partnership between women agriculturalists and the home economists, broadcasters, political activists, scholars, and other professionals who worked alongside them to improve food production and the quality of rural life. --Katherine Jellison, author, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913 1963 In Women in Agriculture, Joan Jensen and Linda Ambrose have brought together a wealth of information about rural women food professionals. Diverse in its scope and ambitious in its reach, the book will be useful to a wide variety of scholars in fields as diverse as history, women s studies, and family and consumer science. --Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Iowa State University In Women in Agriculture, Joan Jensen and Linda Ambrose have brought together a wealth of information about rural women food professionals. Diverse in its scope and ambitious in its reach, the book will be useful to a wide variety of scholars in fields as diverse as history, women's studies, and family and consumer science. --Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Iowa State University
Author Information
Linda M. Ambrose is a professor of history at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her books include For Home and Country: The Centennial History of the Women's Institutes in Ontario. She lives in Sudbury, Ontario. Joan M. Jensen is professor emerita at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her books include the Pulitzer Prize--nominated Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
