Rural History vol 5 no 2 (Oct 1994)

Special issue on women's history.

pp. 129-42 Pamela Sharpe, 'The women's harvest: straw-plaiting and the

representation of labouring women's employment, c.1793-1885'.

pp. 143-54 Sally McMurry, 'American rural women and the transformation of

dairy processing, 1820-80'.

pp. 155-70 Joanna Bourke, '"I was always fond of my pillow": the handmade

lace industry in the United Kingdom, 1870-1914'.

pp. 171-84 Anne O'Dowd, 'Women in rural Ireland in the nineteenth and early

           twentieth centuries -- how the daughters, wives and sisters of
           small farmers and landless labourers fared'.

pp. 185-94 Bridget Hill, 'Rural-urban migration of women and their

employment in towns'.

pp. 195-210 Jane K. Cowan, 'Women, men and pre-Lenten carnival in northern

           Greece: an anthropological exploration of gender transformation
           in symbol and practice'.

pp. 211-16 Maureen Sutton, 'The problems, difficulties and advantages of

women's oral history in rural society'.

pp. 217-26 Ray Abrahams, 'Women and rural development in contemporary Estonia'.

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