Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research

by Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson

Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037296
• ISBN13: 9780271037295
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"