Professor bain Carolyn Sachs book was groundbreaking. She was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture, and it was this book that helped launch sociologists and other social scientists and rural historians and so forth, to look at the contributions of women who had largely been invisible up to this time. This is a nod to that groundbreaking book. Why study women in egger culture in agriculture . And i have been arguing what other scholars are arguing is that why we want to study women in agriculture specifically, and not just talk about agriculture and gene roles, is that women have always inyed a really Critical Role us, in us, in clothing sustaining Rural Communities where there are farm families, fuel ourgly helping society, and this is everywhere, not just the u. S. When we talked about agriculture, womens critical contribution was largely invisible. But when we did see it, and we will talk about that, when we did acknowledge it, it often wasnt va