The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America

by Gabriel Rosenberg and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

Book Overview

4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization efforts, through its role in the administration of federal programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status as an instrument of international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247531
• ISBN13: 9780812247534
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"