[PDF] Owning Landthe Experiences Of Women Farmers In Maryland eBook

Author : Madeline Franklin
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File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2014
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This study examines the experiences of female farmland owners in North-Central Maryland. It explores the different ways in which women have acquired land, the variety of relationships that women have with their land, and the ways in which a woman's property impacts her roles and relationships on the farm. The study consists of in-depth interviews conducted with a sample of women from six counties in North-Central Maryland. A snowball method of sampling was employed to gather participants for the study. The sample is comprised of women who own land that they operate as farms, although they may share the title and operate it in conjunction with others. Efforts were made to collect data from as diverse of a sample as possible, striving to include women who have accessed land in different ways, who operate different size and types of farms, and who both do and do not share the land title. Interviews were conducted over a period of four months, and were semi-structured in nature. A phenomenological method of analysis was then employed to draw out themes and make more explicit the experiences of women on their land. This study finds that land holds more than a monetary value to women farmers, serving as a tool of empowerment, a burden, and a physical and emotional connection to family. In addition, social processes also impact the meaning of land ownership, with gender roles and relationships with family members mitigating women's power on their land.

Author : Anita Spring
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781555878696

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In this volume, case studies reveal that farm women in Africa, Asia and Latin America are rapidly becoming more than subsistence producers. It explores the societal and domestic changes brought about as women move to positions as wage labourers, contract growers and farm owners.

Author : Katrine Anderson Saito
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821327494

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World Bank Discussion Paper 230. Based on four country studies and extensive household surveys, this paper documents the breakdown of traditional farming systems in Sub- Saharan Africa and its implications for the role of women in agriculture.

Author : Margaret Marshall Coleman
Publisher : Publishingworks
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933002552

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Women were not invented until the 1950's. Or so it seems to the archival reader, searching for accounts of early farm women. Primary sources, however, reveal a different picture. At the heart of every successful farm was a woman. In this unique history, Margaret Coleman explores women farmers in Montgomery County, Maryland, from the early days to the present.

Author : Leith Mullings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113666274X

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This volume utilizes the cross-cultural, historical and ethnographic perspective of anthropology to illuminate the intrinsic connections of race, class and gender. The author begins by discussing the manner in which her experience as a participant observer led her to research and write about various aspects of African-American women's experiences. She goes on to provide a critical analysis of the new scholarship on African-American women, and explores issues of race, class and gender in the arenas of work, kinship and resistance.

Author : Elaine F. Weiss
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1612343996

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Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the "farmerette" of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I. From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women, from all social and economic strata, lived together in communal camps and did what was considered "men's work": plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber. The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women. It insisted on fair labor practices and pay equal to male laborers' wages for its workers and taught women not only agricultural skills but also leadership and management techniques. Despite their initial skepticism, farmers became the WLA's loudest champions, and the farmerette was celebrated as an icon of American women's patriotism and pluck. The WLA's short but spirited life foreshadowed some of the most significant social issues of the twentieth century: women's changing roles, the problem of class distinctions in a democracy, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women. The dramatic story of the WLA is vividly retold here using long-buried archival material, allowing a fascinating chapter of America's World War I experience to be rediscovered.

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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Agricultural colonies
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In this bibliography an attempt has been made to collect references to agricultural land settlement in the United States and in foreign countries which are likely to be useful to those interested in the literature of subsistence homesteads, small holdings, and land settlement as relief for unemployment. Many references to publications on the general subject of land settlement have been included, but in selecting the references the emphasis has been placed chiefly on schemes leading to the eventual ownership of a small farm or holding which will provide either partial or complete employment for the owner.

Author : Nancy F. Cott
Publisher : K.G. Saur Verlag
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Rural women
ISBN : 9783598414602

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Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.