The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon

by Zachary Michael Jack

From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Zachary Michael Jack follows the fascinating story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557536198
• ISBN13: 9781557536198
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"