books.google.ca - Because men typically owned the "family farm," farm women's economic welfare depended largely on the smooth negotiation of their interconnected roles. Yet the women Halpern uncovers were surprisingly outspoken about their devaluation on the farm and about patriarchal traditions and institutions that...http://books.google.ca/books/about/And_on_that_Farm_He_Had_a_Wife.html?id=VGbQeHm5IlgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAnd on that Farm He Had a Wife