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Article: Introduction.(discussion of historical and sociological research on rural women in the United States)
- Article from:
- Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Rural women have always lurked in the background of historical narrative, appearing and disappearing like objects caught in the headlights of a car playing over the landscape at night. Over the past twenty years, growing numbers of scholars from all disciplines have illuminated the lives of this rural majority in books and articles, in papers and discussions. Most interpretations focus on the transition of agriculture to a specialized, capital-intensive enterprise coupled with the absorption of rural lives into the broader American consumer economy as the primary agent of change. Because of this research, rural women are far more visible today than they were in 1980, and ...