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Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-century New York

Door Nancy Grey Osterud

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#370723-XN20
Titel	Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-century New York
Auteur	Osterud, Nancy Grey
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1991
ISBN10	0801425107
ISBN13	9780801425103
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth, silver lettered spine, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, map, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a "separate sphere." Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men. Nancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and organizational records, to reconstruct the everyday lives of ordinary women of the past. Exploring large questions within the confines of a single c... (Lees verder)ommunity, she analyzes the ways in which notions of gender structured women's interactions with their families and neighbors, their place in the farm family economy, and their participation in organized community activities. Rare turn-of-the-century photographs of the rural landscape, formal and informal family portraits, and scenes of daily life and labor add a special dimension to Bonds of Community. It should find a ready audience among women's historians, labor historians, rural historians, and historians of New York State.
Pagina's	303
Conditie	Goed — No dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 75,00

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