"Let us Hang Up the Dishpan and the Broom": The Pursuit of Culture in the Farmers Wives' Reading-Course and The Cornell Study Clubs.

dc.contributor.author	Weinstock, Tamar	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-02-02T17:21:08Z
dc.date.available	2010-02-02T17:21:08Z
dc.date.issued	2010-02-02T17:21:08Z
dc.description.abstract	Of all the struggles rural women faced at the start of the twentieth century, the "soul starvation" described in many of their letters was one of the most painful. Encountering endless work and often severe isolation, many women would concur with one member of the Farmers Wives' Reading Course, who wrote: "I am one of the farmers' wives who certainly needs some help. One's soul certainly starves away out in the country." The tone of a great number of letters sent to Van Rensselaer, the supervisor of the Farmers Wives' Reading Course, reflected a similar feeling of deprivation.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/14185	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Human Ecology	en_US
dc.subject	Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics and Human Nutrition	en_US
dc.subject	undergraduate summer research fellowship	en_US
dc.title	"Let us Hang Up the Dishpan and the Broom": The Pursuit of Culture in the Farmers Wives' Reading-Course and The Cornell Study Clubs.	en_US

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