All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South, 1919-1941; Author: Walker, Melissa; Paperback

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All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South, 1919-1941

Author: Walker, Melissa
Revisiting Rural America; Paperback; 13 Illustrations
360 pages
Published: March 2002
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801869242

In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women -- forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life.Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumFollowing World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing as a plunge in prices led to a 20-year depression. This book draws on interviews, archives and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering change.

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