Bonds of Community: Literary Texts and Political Models

by Nancy Grey Osterud

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801425107
• ISBN13: 9780801425103
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher