| Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930 Contributor(s): Handy-Marchello, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873515218 ISBN-13: 9780873515214 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 305.436 |
| LCCN: 2004021947 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.32" W x 9.44" (0.99 lbs) 205 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on the roles of women in this pioneer generation--their changing status from equal partnership to subordination, from being valued for their productive work to being glorified for their reproductive function. Enlivened by interviews with pioneer families as well as diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources, Women of the Northern Plains uncovers the significant and changing roles of Dakota farm women who were true partners to their husbands, their efforts marking the difference between success and failure for their families. |