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All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
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All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 Hardcover - 2000

by Melissa Walker


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Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians

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 consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury--yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.

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In many ways this book is a tribute to my roots in a rural upcountry community.

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  • Title All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
  • Author Melissa Walker
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date April 10, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801863189 / 080186318X
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.36 x 1.06 in (23.80 x 16.15 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women farmers - Appalachian Region
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038678
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.483

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2001, Page 969
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 75

About the author

Melissa Walker is an associate professor of history at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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