Format:
Book
Title:
Women of the Northern Plains : gender and settlement on the homestead frontier, 1870-1930 / Barbara Handy-Marchello.
Author:
Handy-Marchello, Barbara.
Call Number:
305.43 Handy
Publisher, Date:
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2005.
Description:
viii, 205 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century.
Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century.
Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century.
Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota.
Sex role -- North Dakota -- History.
North Dakota -- Rural conditions.
North Dakota -- History.
Contents:
Introduction -- Dakota : the people, the place, the times -- "My duty as wife and mother" : marriage and family -- "By the hand of woman" : women's work in house, barnyard, and fields -- "Many dear friends" & "Notorious horse thieves" : creating community -- The "main stay" : managing butter and egg production -- "Devoted wholly to their interests" : farm women and the Farmers' Institute.
ISBN:
0873515218 (hardcover : alk. paper)