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And on that farm he had a wife : Ontario farm women and feminism, 1900-1970

An exploration of the historical relationship between Ontario farm women and feminism.
Print Book, English, 2001
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2001
History
viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
9780773521841, 9780773521858, 0773521844, 0773521852
46628710
"But on the farm ... feminism means something else": social and Agrarian feminism
"Too important to be forgotten": writing Ontario farming and farm women into history
"These self-made men make me tired": gender conflict on the farm at the turn of the century
"We old-fashioned folk do not put enough science into our domestic lives": home economics and the inception of Macdonald Institute and the WI
"Think something else than kitchen": the failure of the UFWO and equity feminism in the inter-war years
"Face the future. Treasure the past": farm women, changing times, and social feminism in the 1950s and 1960s
"A new breed of farm women is developing": the decline of social feminism after 1970