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Author Jones, Lu Ann.

Title Mama learned us to work : farm women in the New South / Lu Ann Jones
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in rural culture
Studies in rural culture.
Contents Rolling Stores -- Anything She Could Sell -- The Chicken Business -- Professional Paradoxes -- Women in the Middle -- From Feed Bags to Fashion
Summary Farm women of the 20th century have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out and isolated. Building upon oral histories, Lu Ann Jones presents these women as consumers, producers and agents of economic and cultural change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women in agriculture -- Southern States
Rural women -- Southern States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Rural women
Women in agriculture
Ländlicher Raum
Landwirtin
Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Form Electronic book
ISBN 080786207X
9780807862070
9780807827161
0807827169
9780807853849
0807853844