Women, technology, and rural life: Some recent literature

Technology and Culture

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 942-952

  Riney Kehrberg, Pamela ^a  

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EID: 0031329156     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3106955     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Books reviewed in this essay: Jane Adams, The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Sally McMurry, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
2. Books reviewed in this essay: Jane Adams, The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Sally McMurry, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
3. Books reviewed in this essay: Jane Adams, The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Sally McMurry, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
4. Books reviewed in this essay: Jane Adams, The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Sally McMurry, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
5. Jared van Wagenen Jr., The Golden Age of Homespun, rev. ed. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1963), pp. 249-68.
6. Lorraine Garkovich and Janet Bokemeier, "Agricultural Mechanization and American Farm Women's Economic Roles," in Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures, ed. Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988), p. 211.
7. Haney and Knowles, pp. 1-2.
8. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
9. Joan Jensen, "The Role of Farm Women in American History: Areas for Additional Research," Agriculture and Human Values 2 (winter 1985): 13-17.
10. Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
11. Ibid., p. 106.
12. Ibid., p. 92.
13. Deborah Fink, Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition, and Change (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986), p. 47.
14. Ibid., p. 152.
15. Ibid., p. 241.
16. Corlann Gee Bush, "'He Isn't Half So Cranky as He Used to Be': Agricultural Mechanization, Comparable Worth, and the Changing Farm Family," in "To Toil the Livelong Day": American Women at Work, 1780-1980, ed. Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 213-29.
17. Ibid., pp. 228-29.
18. Cowan also finds this phenomenon in the lives of urban and suburban women. Cowan (n. 5 above), pp. 83-85.
19. For oral histories that capture some of the emotional reaction to new technology, see two volumes edited by Eleanor Arnold: Memories of Hoosier Homemakers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993) and Voices of American Homemakers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985).
20. For oral histories that capture some of the emotional reaction to new technology, see two volumes edited by Eleanor Arnold: Memories of Hoosier Homemakers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993) and Voices of American Homemakers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985).
21. Garkovich and Bokemeier (n. 3 above), p. 224.
22. Rachel Rosenfeld, Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family, in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), pp. 56-57.
23. Ibid., p. 147.