Book Review: Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930

Authors

Angel Kwolek-Folland, University of Florida

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:2 (Spring 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Focusing on the history of North Dakota farm women from the years of settlement and community-building to the transition to an industrial, consumer economy, Handy-Marchello argues that North Dakota farm marriages of necessity were economic partnerships throughout this period.