2. Women’s Place on the Land

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Gender, Power, and Labor
7. 1. Putting the Barn Before the House 27
8. 2. Women’s Place on the Land 46
9. Part II. Farming and Wage-Earning
10. 3. “Buying a Farm on a Small Capital” 69
11. 4. The Transformation of Agriculture and the Rural Economy 83
12. Part III. The Division of Labor and Relations of Power
13. 5. Sharing and Dividing Farm Work 105
14. 6. Intergenerational and Marital Partnerships 125
15. 7. Wage-Earning and Farming Families 149
16. 8. Negotiating Working Relationships 169
17. Part IV. Organizing the Rural Community
18. 9. Forming Cooperatives and Taking Collective Action 193
19. 10. Home Economics and Farm Family Economies 212
20. Conclusion: Gender, Mutuality, and Community in Retrospect 231
21. Notes 249
22. Index 267