Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century

by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of rural southerners were dependent on agriculture and eked out a living as tenants on land owned by someone else. Women took on multiple duties, from child rearing to labor in the fields, to help meet their own goals of independence, well-being, and family persistence on the land. Over the course of the century, however, women found their lives and their work transformed. Government intervention,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826216293
• ISBN13: 9780826216298
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5