Deborah Fink is author of Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940. She lives in Ames,
Iowa.
Review
"An important work not just for those concerned about rural women, but for all scholars concerned with
community and change."--Rural Sociology 'Fink's argument is convincing, her passion for the subject is obvious,
and her research is thorough."
--Nebraska History
"Challenges historians, sociologists, and those concerned with rural policy to attend to gender and class
relations as central categories of analysis."
--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The University of North Carolina Press Web Site, May, 2001
Summary
Challenges the widely held assumption that frontier farm life in the United States made it easier for women to achieve rough equality with men.
