Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York
ISBN: 9781501729287
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Rural women -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century; New York (State) -- Rural conditions;

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...


Nancy Grey Osterud is Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State University.

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