Women of the Northern Plains : gender and settlement on the homestead frontier, 1870-1930 / Barbara Handy-Marchello.
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TextPublication details: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2005.Description: viii, 205 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 0873515218 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota
- Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century
- Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century
- Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century
- Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century
- Sex role -- North Dakota -- History
- North Dakota -- History
- North Dakota -- Rural conditions
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In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on the roles of women in this pioneer generation--their changing status from equal partnership to subordination, from being valued for their productive work to being glorified for their reproductive function.
Enlivened by interviews with pioneer families as well as diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources, Women of the Northern Plains uncovers the significant and changing roles of Dakota farm women who were true partners to their husbands, their efforts marking the difference between success and failure for their families.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
Introduction -- Dakota : the people, the place, the times -- "My duty as wife and mother" : marriage and family -- "By the hand of woman" : women's work in house, barnyard, and fields -- "Many dear friends" & "Notorious horse thieves" : creating community -- The "main stay" : managing butter and egg production -- "Devoted wholly to their interests" : farm women and the Farmers' Institute.