Midwest Farmer's Daughter : In Search of an American Icon
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| Autore: |
Jack Zachary Michael
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| Titolo: |
Midwest Farmer's Daughter : In Search of an American Icon
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| Pubblicazione: | Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120701 |
| Purdue University Press | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 630.82 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Midwest Farmer's Daughter : In Search of an American Icon |
| ISBN: | 1-61249-219-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969142103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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