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The 4-H harvest : sexuality and the state in rural America / / Gabriel N. Rosenberg



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Autore: Rosenberg Gabriel N. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The 4-H harvest : sexuality and the state in rural America / / Gabriel N. Rosenberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 630.6073
Soggetto topico: 4-H clubs - United States - History
Sociology, Rural - 20th century - History - 20th century
Agriculture - United States - Social aspects - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Rural conditions
Soggetto non controllato: Agriculture
American History
American Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Signs of the State -- Chapter 1. Agrarian Futurism, Rural Degeneracy, and the Origins of 4-H -- Chapter 2. Financial Intimacy and Rural Manhood -- Chapter 3. 4-H Body Politics in the 1920's -- Chapter 4. Conserving Farm and Family in New Deal 4-H -- Chapter 5. Citizenship and Difference in Wartime 4-H -- Chapter 6. International 4-H in the Cold War -- Epilogue. Future Farmers of Afghanistan: Agrarian Futurism at the Twilight of Empire -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: 4-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.
Titolo autorizzato: The 4-H harvest  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-9189-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796108603321
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Serie: Politics and culture in modern America.