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Farming, Women -- United States -- 20th Century
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the history of farming women in the United States.

Six Superlative Sources

· Adams, Jane. 1994. The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 1890-1990. University of North Carolina Press.

· Fink, Deborah. 1992. Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska 1880-1940. University of North Carolina Press.

· Fink, Deborah. 1986. Open Country, Iowa. State University of New York Press.

· Haney, Wava and Jane B. Knowles, eds. 1988. Women and Farming. Westview Press.

· Jellison, Katherine. 1993. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1919-1963. University of North Carolina Press.

· Sharpless, Rebecca. 1999. Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Cotton Farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie, 1900-1940. University of North Carolina Press.

Other Excellent Sources

· Rosenfeld, Rachel. 1985. Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States. University of North Carolina Press.

· Jensen, Joan. 1986. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. Yale University Press.

· Osterud, Nancy Grey. 1991. Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York. Cornell University Press.

· Barlett, Peggy. 1993. American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis. University of North Carolina Press.

· Salamon, Sonia. 1992. Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest. University of North Carolina Press.

· Walker, Melissa. 2000. All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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