I saw something of their lives in mine. I saw something of their origins in mine. Thus began my path as a historian.
A WORK IN PROGRESS: FINDING MYSELF THROUGH EXTENSION
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RWSA Endorses Agricultural History Society’s statement on COVID-19 and Police Violence
RWSA endorses @AgHistorySoc statement on COVID-19 and Police Violence #COVID-19 #ruralwomen
Women Leading Landscape Change
Land is power.
From Garlic to Grocery: turning empty trucks into bigger business for rural Minnesota
How can we connect rural grocers and farmers to overcome food deserts?
Rural Players on the National Stage: Alma Nash, the Missouri Ladies Military Band, and the National Woman Suffrage Procession
In Missouri, rural women themselves played an important role in the suffrage movement.
Annie Zachary Pike: Arkansas Homemaker, Farmer and Politician
Pike exemplifies the underexplored activism of Black rural Arkansas women.
How Civic Responsibility, Nativism, and World War I Gave Women in the Midwest the Right to Vote
Civic responsibility combined with wartime nativist hysteria to give midwestern women the right to vote.
In Case You Missed It
Recent website posts highlighting the experiences of rural women.
Surviving and Thriving: Gender, Justice, Power, and Place Making
The Rural Women's Studies Association's 13th Triennial Conference is fast approaching. It will be held May 16-19, 2018, with optional pre- and post-conference tours on May 16 and 20. We hope that you will join us at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, for this interdiciplinary gathering of scholars, activists, and others interested in rural women past and present. To whet your appetite, we are posting the conference program here.
TERF WARS – ARE WE REPEATING FEMINIST HISTORIES?
Even before the invention of social media networks, radical and lesbian feminists practiced exclusion within communities designed for “womyn-born women.”
