Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South

(Part of the Studies in Rural Culture Series)

by Lu Ann Jones

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Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change.

As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the "butter...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807853844

ISBN13:9780807853849

Release Date:September 2002

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.4" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

20th Century Agricultural Sciences Economics History Politics & Social Sciences Rural Science & Math Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Unemployment Women in History Women's Studies

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