Review of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition and Change.

Authors

Seena B. Kohl, Webster University

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

This book adds to a neglected area of research, rural women. Through the use of reminiscence, census data, agricultural surveys, interviews, and observations during a year of residency in a rural Iowa county, Deborah Fink examines women's experience as members of a rural social system in which farming has been, until recently, considered a viable and valued opportunity, albeit a gender restricted occupation.