With These Hands : Women Working on the Land

Jensen, Joan M.

ISBN 10: 0912670711 / ISBN 13: 9780912670713

Published by Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1981

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 17173780-75

Synopsis:

Documents the history of American women working in agriculture and describes their problems, attitudes, characteristics, and cultural heritage

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: By 1860, eastern farm families had already come to depend on butter for a cash income to supplement income from grain surplus. As spinning and weaving had earlier been their prime household industry, making butter now became the chief occupation of farm women and girls. With the increasing urban consumer demand in the nineteenth century, women on small farms developed a decentralized butter industry, in which they carried surplus butter to country stores to exchange for necessities-just as, in an earlier era, they had carried yards of homespun cloth, until it was replaced by industrial textiles. As each frontier became settled in the West, more women turned to buttermaking as a way of supplementing the farm income.

Bibliographic Details

Title: With These Hands : Women Working on the Land
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good