"Knotted together like roots in the darkness": Rural midwestern women and region - A bibliographic guide

Agricultural History

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 453-481

  Aley, Ginette ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION; WOMENS STATUS;

MID-WEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042664108     PISSN: 00021482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ah.2003.77.3.453     Document Type: Article

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6. Glenda Riley employs the terms "dowdy" and "dreary" in remarking on Midwest stereotypes in the foreword to Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and Wendy Hamand Venet, eds., Midwestern Women: Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997),ix-xi;
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82. Malcom J. Rohrbough, "Gold Rush Families: A Review Essay," Annals of Iowa 51 (Winter 1992): 278-87.
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107. Mary Mason Younker, "'I Was Some What Disappointed': Expectations of Love in Rural Michigan," Michigan Historical Review 21 (Spring 1995): 1-36.
108. C. Robert Haywood, "Uplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce in a Frontier Town Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century," Great Plains Quarterly 13 (Fall 1993): 211-21.
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