A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Rural Women in America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555912508 ISBN 13: 9781555912505

Publisher: Fulcrum Pub, 1996

Synopsis

An evocative portrait of women in rural America during the era after the Civil War, documenting three decades of social change and a period of history often neglected.

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From the Publisher:

A vivid portrait of nineteenth-century rural women's lives
From the onset of the Civil War to the turn of the century, the women of rural America were isolated from the rapid and overwhelming social changes that characterized this period. They often became immersed in their roles of homemaker, wife and mother. In A Woman's Place Norton Juster brings this period of American history alive with a broad sampling of articles, letters, poems, and essays written by and for rural women.

Juster has gathered a rich variety of writings from the popular literature of the time. Intensely read in its day, this popular literature was, more often than not, taken as gospel by the women who read and wrote it, and it mirrors their lives in important detail. A Woman's Place not only preserves a vibrant picture of the life of rural women in the late 19th century but also vividly illustrates the various problems of their lives, many of which still underlie our lives today.

From the Back Cover:

The period between the Civil War and the turn of the century was a time of great social upheaval in the United States. Lured by the promises of industrialization, much of the rural population moved to the cities, but those who remained in the countryside were isolated from the rapid changes in American society. Women found themselves torn between the battle for women's rights being hotly debated in the cities and the traditional role of homemaker, mother, and helper that was the norm in rural areas. In A Woman's Place, Norton Juster brings this turbulent period of American history to life using a broad sampling of articles, letters, poems, and essays taken from the popular literature of the time. While these publications recognized the hardship that characterized the lives of their readers, they upheld the idealized vision of the farmer's wife. It is this historical conflict between the independent woman and the traditional female role that makes A Woman's Place important reading today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fulcrum Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1555912508
• ISBN 13: 9781555912505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Juster Norton