1. Women and Farming : Property and Power
- Author
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S. Shortall and S. Shortall
- Subjects
- Farm ownership, Property, Family farms, Women farmers, Women in agriculture, Dairy farmers--History--19th century, Sex discrimination against women
- Abstract
Arguing that property and power are central to understanding the position of women in farming and using comparative examples, this book considers the transfer of land between men, the changed role of women in the dairy industry in the nineteenth century, women in farming organisations, women in agricultural education programmes, and the role of the state in shaping the lives of farm women. The common themes of power and property underpin all the chapters.
- Published
- 1999