CSPAN3 Lectures In History Women Farm Work In The 20th Century July 13, 2024
Between societal expectations and the realities of shared farm labor. Good morning, everyone. Todays lecture and on invisible farmers. And what were going to do today is take a historical overview to look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. And the title for the lecture today on invisible woman actually comes from a 1983 book, ancient in your mind, but a book thats over 30 years old by carolyn sachs. And sachs book was really groundbreaking in that she was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture and it was this work that helped launch work by soci...