Author: Donald Marti
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles that women have always played in the Grange, and explores the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their own distinctive interests. Marti's book offers a careful and detailed analysis of women's roles in the Grange, and introduces readers to thoughtful, articulate farm women who have been virtually ignored in historical literature. His well-balanced study deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but at the same time takes that influence very seriously. Along the way, he traces the growth of women's roles from the promise of equality made by the Grange's founders, to the turn-of-the-century strides that made women some of the leading state and local officers. Although mainly focusing on the years up to 1920, the study also surveys more recent developments such as Grange women's continued interest in public reform, their narrowed focus on domestic crafts beginning in the 1950s, and the striking changes of the 1980s. This work represents an important new chapter in the historical discussion of the Grange, and will be a welcome publication for students of American history, women's studies, and agricultural history.
Women of the Grange
Author: Donald Marti
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles that women have always played in the Grange, and explores the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their own distinctive interests. Marti's book offers a careful and detailed analysis of women's roles in the Grange, and introduces readers to thoughtful, articulate farm women who have been virtually ignored in historical literature. His well-balanced study deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but at the same time takes that influence very seriously. Along the way, he traces the growth of women's roles from the promise of equality made by the Grange's founders, to the turn-of-the-century strides that made women some of the leading state and local officers. Although mainly focusing on the years up to 1920, the study also surveys more recent developments such as Grange women's continued interest in public reform, their narrowed focus on domestic crafts beginning in the 1950s, and the striking changes of the 1980s. This work represents an important new chapter in the historical discussion of the Grange, and will be a welcome publication for students of American history, women's studies, and agricultural history.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles that women have always played in the Grange, and explores the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their own distinctive interests. Marti's book offers a careful and detailed analysis of women's roles in the Grange, and introduces readers to thoughtful, articulate farm women who have been virtually ignored in historical literature. His well-balanced study deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but at the same time takes that influence very seriously. Along the way, he traces the growth of women's roles from the promise of equality made by the Grange's founders, to the turn-of-the-century strides that made women some of the leading state and local officers. Although mainly focusing on the years up to 1920, the study also surveys more recent developments such as Grange women's continued interest in public reform, their narrowed focus on domestic crafts beginning in the 1950s, and the striking changes of the 1980s. This work represents an important new chapter in the historical discussion of the Grange, and will be a welcome publication for students of American history, women's studies, and agricultural history.
The Rural Carolinian
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Proceedings of the New Hampshire State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry
Author: New Hampshire State Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Washington State Grange
Author: Washington State Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Journal of Proceedings of the New Hampshire State Grange, Order Patrons of Husbandry at Its ... Annual Session
Author: New Hampshire State Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the New York State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
Author: New York State Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Michigan State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
Author: Michigan State Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
Author: Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.
A History of Women’s Prisons in England
Author: Susanna Menis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and policy. It examines women’s prisons in England from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, drawing attention to the detrimental effect the orthodox closed prison has on penal reform. The text investigates the clash between what was conceptualised as desirable prison policy and the actual implementation and implications of such a penalty on the prisoner. It challenges previous claims made about the invisibility of women prisoners in historical penal policy, and provides an original analysis of the open prison, taking HMP Askham Grange as a case study, where the history of such an initiative is explored and debated.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and policy. It examines women’s prisons in England from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, drawing attention to the detrimental effect the orthodox closed prison has on penal reform. The text investigates the clash between what was conceptualised as desirable prison policy and the actual implementation and implications of such a penalty on the prisoner. It challenges previous claims made about the invisibility of women prisoners in historical penal policy, and provides an original analysis of the open prison, taking HMP Askham Grange as a case study, where the history of such an initiative is explored and debated.