Gender and Identity in Rural Maine Women and The Maine Farmer, 1870-1875

The article reviews the history and impact of, and response to, the Women\u27s Department section of The Maine Farmer periodical

Opening the Farm Gate to Women? Sustainable Agriculture in the United States

This paper analyzes the relationship between the growth in the number of women farmers and the rise in sustainable agriculture using the US Census of Agriculture. Assessing full time farmers, we show that farms operated by women earn much lower farm incomes than farms operated by men, such that the gender gap in agriculture is amongst the largest in any occupation. While this inequity can be partly explained by the patrilineal inheritance of land and capital, farms headed by women generate nearly 40 percent less income after controlling for farm assets, work time, age, experience, farm type, and location. We investigate whether three different forms of sustainable agriculture improved incomes for women farmers during 2012. We find that only farms engaging in Community Supported Agriculture experience a marked decline in the gender gap. We argue that the diverse set of principles associated with Community Supported Agriculture results in women selecting into that form of farming, and that the men involved in it may be more supportive of women farmers

Women at the Loom: Handweaving in Washington County, Tennessee, 1840-1860.

This thesis explores the evidence for handweaving in antebellum Washington County, Tennessee. The author examines probate inventories, wills, store ledgers, and census and tax materials to determine the identities of the weavers, the equipment and raw materials available to them, and the kinds of textiles that women wove. The author discusses the reasons many women continued to weave cloth at home although commercially woven textiles were available in local stores. The author concludes that many of Washington County\u27s antebellum weavers wove as a contribution to the country goods the family bartered at the local store. Others may have been responding to an ethnic or family tradition or seeking an outlet for creative expression. For many, a combination of factors influenced them to weave. By adding to our understanding of women\u27s household activities in East Tennessee, this study adds to the history of the wider Appalachian region

Women at the Loom: Handweaving in Washington County, Tennessee, 1840-1860.

This thesis explores the evidence for handweaving in antebellum Washington County, Tennessee. The author examines probate inventories, wills, store ledgers, and census and tax materials to determine the identities of the weavers, the equipment and raw materials available to them, and the kinds of textiles that women wove. The author discusses the reasons many women continued to weave cloth at home although commercially woven textiles were available in local stores. The author concludes that many of Washington County\u27s antebellum weavers wove as a contribution to the country goods the family bartered at the local store. Others may have been responding to an ethnic or family tradition or seeking an outlet for creative expression. For many, a combination of factors influenced them to weave. By adding to our understanding of women\u27s household activities in East Tennessee, this study adds to the history of the wider Appalachian region

'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War

Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve an unprecedented agricultural output, despite the enlistment of millions of Northern men in the army. This thesis tracks the fate of two Vermont farm families in order to analyse rural women's wartime experiences. Using their personal letters coupled with local histories, Vermont newspapers, government documents and a range of printed sources focused on rural life, this thesis maps the way farmwomen coped with the challenges of running farms alone. Widely recognised during the war for their contribution in sustaining the Northern economy and feeding the army, rural women would later be thoroughly forgotten

A Sermon, Delivered July 23, 1812, on Occasion of the State Fast, Appointed in Consequence of the Declaration of War against Great Britain

A sermon delivered at the beginning of the War of 1812

Living in the navel of Waag: ritual traditions among the Daasanech of South West Ethiopia

“Living in the navel of Waag” offers a ideal typical description of the different ritual traditions among the Daasanech of South-West Ethiopia with special focus on the ways the body is modified. Ritual is seen as a means to induce wellbeing and to tackle misfortune. The dissertation starts with a brief situating of the Daasanech in their environmental and historical context. Chapter two an outline of the different social categories a Daasanech is born into or requires during his life. Special attention is given to the explanation of the generation system and the system of alternating generations called dolo. Chapter 3 deals with the notion of Waag, the source of rain and wellbeing, the role of the ancestors and the concept of sidha or pulse. The next chapter explains the different rites of passage a Daasanech passes through from birth to death. The two main rituals, male circumcision (bilte) and the blessing of the girls (‘dimi) are described, as well as the different steps a marriage takes and several other smaller rituals.. The last chapter deals with the ways the traditional Daasanech explain affliction and misfortune and how they deal with it. In this chapter, different notions such as curse, moral pollution and healing are introduced and explained