Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963

by Katherine Jellison

Book Overview

The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.

Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension agents and by home appliance manufacturers, were expected to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844152
• ISBN13: 9780807844151
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"