Womens work on family farms during the 20th century. She argues societal expectations for what roles were appropriate for men and women did not reflect the realities of shared farm labor. Prof. Bain good morning, everyone. Todays lecture is on invisible farmers. What we are going to do today is take a historical overview to look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. The title for the lecture today woman comesisible inm a 1983 book, so ancient your mind by carolyn sachs. 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 work by 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. One of the Big Questions we have been asking in this class and posing since the first day we met is why should we study women in agriculture . Why
Look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. The title for the lecture today, on invisible woman, comes from a 1983 book, so ancient in your mind, by carolyn sachs. 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 work by 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. One of the Big Questions we have been asking in this class and posing since the first day we met is, why should we study women in agriculture . Why not just study agriculture . Why should we take a gender lens and think about the different roles . Why . Thats one of the Big Questions, right . What we have been arguing, what i have been arguing and what other scholars argue, is that why we want to study women in agriculture specifically, and why we want to