Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives - Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research

Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The authors explore how these early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses of farm living, rural community social organization, and the agricultural labor force.

About the author

Julie N. Zimmerman is Professor of Rural Sociology in the Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky, and the Historian for the Rural Sociological Society.Olaf F. Larson is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

Product details

• Authors: Olaf F. (Professor of Rural Sociology Larson, Larson Olaf F., Julie N. (Associate Professor Zimmerman, Zimmerman Julie N.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2014
• EAN: 9780271037295
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03729-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Rural communities / rural life