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Women of the Grange - (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Donald B Marti (Hardcover)

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  • Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other.
  • About the Author: DONALD B. MARTI is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University at South Bend.
  • 168 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Industries
  • Series Name: Contributions in Women's Studies

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Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles that women have always played in the Grange, and explores the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their own distinctive interests.

Marti's book offers a careful and detailed analysis of women's roles in the Grange, and introduces readers to thoughtful, articulate farm women who have been virtually ignored in historical literature. His well-balanced study deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but at the same time takes that influence very seriously. Along the way, he traces the growth of women's roles from the promise of equality made by the Grange's founders, to the turn-of-the-century strides that made women some of the leading state and local officers. Although mainly focusing on the years up to 1920, the study also surveys more recent developments such as Grange women's continued interest in public reform, their narrowed focus on domestic crafts beginning in the 1950s, and the striking changes of the 1980s. This work represents an important new chapter in the historical discussion of the Grange, and will be a welcome publication for students of American history, women's studies, and agricultural history.



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Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more clearly illustrated than in the rituals and programs of the Grange, the secret fraternal organization established to serve farmers. In this work, Donald Marti examines the important roles that women have always played in the Grange, and explores the opportunities for sociability and cooperation that fostered sisterhood and encouraged women to pursue their own distinctive interests.

Marti's book offers a careful and detailed analysis of women's roles in the Grange, and introduces readers to thoughtful, articulate farm women who have been virtually ignored in historical literature. His well-balanced study deflates some of the claims that have been made for the order's liberating influence, but at the same time takes that influence very seriously. Along the way, he traces the growth of women's roles from the promise of equality made by the Grange's founders, to the turn-of-the-century strides that made women some of the leading state and local officers. Although mainly focusing on the years up to 1920, the study also surveys more recent developments such as Grange women's continued interest in public reform, their narrowed focus on domestic crafts beginning in the 1950s, and the striking changes of the 1980s. This work represents an important new chapter in the historical discussion of the Grange, and will be a welcome publication for students of American history, women's studies, and agricultural history.



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?Marti makes use of a wide variety of sources and provides a strong introduction and an informative bibliographic essay, both of which comment upon recent work in the history of rural women and the Grange movement. Women of the Grange is a useful addition to the scholarship on rural life.?-Indiana Magazine of History

?Marti's well-written, insightful, valuable book adds the voices of Grange women to the scholarship on women's work, reform, and rural history.?-The Journal of American History

"Marti's well-written, insightful, valuable book adds the voices of Grange women to the scholarship on women's work, reform, and rural history."-The Journal of American History

"Marti makes use of a wide variety of sources and provides a strong introduction and an informative bibliographic essay, both of which comment upon recent work in the history of rural women and the Grange movement. Women of the Grange is a useful addition to the scholarship on rural life."-Indiana Magazine of History



About the Author



DONALD B. MARTI is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University at South Bend. He has authored numerous articles on agricultural history, as well as the book Historical Dictionary of American Agricultural Fairs (Greenwood Press, 1986).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.64 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .98 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Sub-Genre: Industries
Genre: Business + Money Management
Number of Pages: 168
Publisher: Praeger
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Donald B Marti
Language: English
Street Date: August 30, 1991
TCIN: 1003033642
UPC: 9780313257230
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-3827
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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