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001 2010018350
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008 100503s2010 pau b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780271037288 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHQ1420$b.Z56 2010
082 00 $a305.40973/091734$222
100 1 $aZimmerman, Julie N.
245 10 $aOpening windows onto hidden lives :$bwomen, country life, and early rural sociological research /$cJulie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 221 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aRural studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-212) and index.
505 0 $aHidden windows, hidden lives -- Opening hidden windows -- "Agriculture is not the whole of country life" -- Women and rural society -- Finding women in the division's research -- The test of time -- Selected bibliography -- Citations from sociology in government : the Galpin-Taylor years in the the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 -- Reprints of selected publications -- Woman's work on the farm -- The woman on the farm -- Recommendations of The Committee -- Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work (1920) / Charles J. Galpin -- The advantages of farm life : a study by correspondence and interviews with eight thousand farm women : digest of an unpublished report (1924) / Emily Hoag Sawtelle.
520 $a"Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aRural women$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSociology, Rural$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRural conditions.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bBureau of Agricultural Economics.$bDivision of Farm Population and Rural Life.
700 1 $aLarson, Olaf F.