Midwest Farmer's Daughter : In Search of an American Icon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969142103321
• Autore: Jack Zachary Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120701; Purdue University Press
• ISBN: 1-61249-219-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 630.82
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE; Women's Studies; Women farmers - Public opinion - Middle West; Farm life - Public opinion - Middle West; Women farmers - Middle West; Farm life - Middle West; Women in mass media - United States; Farm life in mass media - United States; Popular culture; Public opinion; Agriculture; Earth & Environmental Sciences; Agriculture - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Pioneering Women -- Part One -- Chapter One: The Gingham Girl in the Google Age -- Chapter Two: The Midwest Farmer's Daughter -- Chapter Three: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? -- Chapter Four: Raising Farmer Jane -- Chapter Five: The Chores of Being a Farm Girl -- Chapter Six: Welk Girls and Daisy Dukes -- Chapter Seven: Milkmaids in Manhattan -- Part Two -- Chapter Eight: Little Houses on the Prairie -- Chapter Nine: Future Farm Daughters of America -- Chapter Ten: Ag-vocating Women -- Chapter Eleven: Community-Supported Agriculture -- Chapter Twelve: Female Farmers -- Chapter ; Thirteen: Farmerettes in the Farm City -- Chapter Fourteen: Her Daughter Has a Dynamo -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and.