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  • Entitled to Power

    Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963

    by Katherine Jellison ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women’s unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension agents and by home ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Amish Women and the Great Depression

    by Katherine Jellison, Steven D. Reschly ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Ohio's First Ladies

    From the Midwest to the White House

    Edited by Katherine Jellison ...
    Series series Thinking About Ohio
    This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies: Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taft, and Florence Kling Harding. With contributions by leading scholars, the volume moves beyond traditional biography to examine how each woman’s Ohio roots shaped her public role and influenced ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Amish

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  • More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

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  • The Amish

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  • Quiet and Peaceable Life

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