In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their
world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a
twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs
eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land
to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the
intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a
turning point in the struggle of upcountry women--forcing new
choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life.
Melissa Walker's "All We Knew Was to Farm" draws on interviews,
archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the
conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change.
Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations,
adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm
jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry
women improved dramatically by midcentury--yet in becoming middle
class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both
broadened and circumscribed.
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