LEADER 04590nam 2200745 450 001 9910818524603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9189-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291896 035 $a(CKB)3790000000033271 035 $a(EBL)4321853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545543 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135531 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545543 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12994637 035 $a(PQKB)11459064 035 $a(OCoLC)921007970 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46663 035 $a(DE-B1597)452780 035 $a(OCoLC)952799454 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321853 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149341 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL829224 035 $a(OCoLC)935259514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321853 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000033271 100 $a20160210h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe 4-H harvest $esexuality and the state in rural America /$fGabriel N. Rosenberg 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 1 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8122-4753-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction. Signs of the State --$tChapter 1. Agrarian Futurism, Rural Degeneracy, and the Origins of 4-H --$tChapter 2. Financial Intimacy and Rural Manhood --$tChapter 3. 4-H Body Politics in the 1920's --$tChapter 4. Conserving Farm and Family in New Deal 4-H --$tChapter 5. Citizenship and Difference in Wartime 4-H --$tChapter 6. International 4-H in the Cold War --$tEpilogue. Future Farmers of Afghanistan: Agrarian Futurism at the Twilight of Empire --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $a4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization efforts, through its role in the administration of federal programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status as an instrument of international development in Cold War battlegrounds like Vietnam and Latin America. In domestic and global settings, 4-H's advocates dreamed of transforming rural economies, communities, and families. Organizers believed the clubs would bypass backward patriarchs reluctant to embrace modern farming techniques. In their place, 4-H would cultivate efficient, capital-intensive farms and convince rural people to trust federal expertise. The modern 4-H farm also featured gender-appropriate divisions of labor and produced healthy, robust children. To retain the economic potential of the "best" youth, clubs insinuated state agents at the heart of rural family life. By midcentury, the vision of healthy 4-H'ers on family farms advertised the attractiveness of the emerging agribusiness economy. With rigorous archival research, Gabriel N. Rosenberg provocatively argues that public acceptance of the political economy of agribusiness hinged on federal efforts to establish a modern rural society through effective farming technology and techniques as well as through carefully managed gender roles, procreation, and sexuality. The 4-H Harvest shows how 4-H, like the countryside it often symbolizes, is the product of the modernist ambition to efficiently govern rural economies, landscapes, and populations. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $a4-H clubs$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSociology, Rural$y20th century$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAgriculture$zUnited States$xSocial aspects$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRural conditions 610 $aAgriculture. 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$a4-H clubs$xHistory. 615 0$aSociology, Rural$xHistory 615 0$aAgriculture$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a630.6073 700 $aRosenberg$b Gabriel N.$01666945 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818524603321 996 $aThe 4-H harvest$94026480 997 $aUNINA