On behalf of the family farm, Iowa farm women's activism since 1945, Jenny Barker Devine
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On behalf of the family farm, Iowa farm women's activism since 1945, Jenny Barker Devine
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eng
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Literary form
non fiction
Main title
On behalf of the family farm
Responsibility statement
Jenny Barker Devine
Sub title
Iowa farm women's activism since 1945
Summary
"In on behalf of the family farm, Jenny Baker Devine demonstrates that in an era where technology, depopulation and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, Midwestern women met those challenges with an activism that reflected their own feminine vision of farm life. Focusing on women in four national farm organizations in Iowa -- the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farmers Organization, and the Porkettes -- Devine highlights specific movements in time when farm women had to reassess their roles and strategies for preserving and improving their way of life."
Table of contents
The rich gift of voluntary leadership : rural women's activism in Iowa -- A natural 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
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