With These Hands: Women Working on the Land

by Joan M. Jensen

Book Overview

Although millions of women in the United States have worked on the land, With These Hands is the first history of their work. This collection begins with the agricultural work of Native American women, and traces to the eighties their experience as well as that of Euro-American, Hispanic, Black, and Asian women who have struggled to remain on the land. Rural women's complex lives emerge through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, journal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912670908
• ISBN13: 9780912670904
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"