Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York

by Grey Osterud and Nancy Grey Osterud

Book Overview

Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor and highlights the strategies of mutuality that women adopted to ensure they had a say in family decision making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478103
• ISBN13: 9780801478109
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher