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10%OFFNancy Osterud - Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York - 9780801497988 - V9780801497988
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Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York

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Description for Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a "separate sphere." Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men.

Nancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and ... Read more

Rare turn-of-the-century photographs of the rural landscape, formal and informal family portraits, and scenes of daily life and labor add a special dimension to Bonds of Community. It should find a ready audience among women's historians, labor historians, rural historians, and historians of New York State.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497988
SKU
V9780801497988
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Ref
99-1

About Nancy Osterud
Nancy Grey Osterud is Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State University.

Reviews for Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York
In Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State.
Contemporary Sociology
Osterud's work deserves careful attention from historians of women, rural life, and nineteenth-century American.
American Historical Review

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