Plains Women

Authors

Dorothy Schwieder, Iowa State University
Deborah Fink

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly GPQ 8 (Spring 1988): 79-88. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

During the Great Depression, farm families throughout the nation experienced severe economic difficulties. Since then, historians and other scholars have analyzed and reanalyzed the basic problems of American agriculture and the solutions offered to those problems. Only recently, however, have the scholars begun to take a wide view of rural society during the 1930s and begun to look at the dynamics of the farm family: the roles, influences, and contributions of farm women and the work roles and treatment of farm children. ¹