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Author Handy-Marchello, Barbara.

Title Women of the Northern Plains : gender and settlement on the homestead frontier, 1870-1930 / Barbara Handy-Marchello.

Imprint St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.436309 H192w 2005    ---  Available
Description viii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Dakota : the people, the place, the times -- "My duty as wife and mother" : marriage and family -- "By the hand of woman" : women's work in house, barnyard, and fields -- Creating community -- The "main stay" : managing butter and egg production -- Farm women and the Farmers' Institute.
Subject Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century.
Rural women -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century.
Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 19th century.
Rural families -- North Dakota -- History -- 20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota.
Sex role -- North Dakota -- History.
North Dakota -- Rural conditions.
North Dakota -- History.
ISBN 0873515218 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 268114889

 
    
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