All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
- ISBN-10
- 0801869242
- ISBN-13
- 9780801869242
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-07-22
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Melissa Walker
Description
Melissa Walker has done an admirable job of mining oral interviews, TVA records, letters, diaries, and farming magazines to piece together the story of how women contributed to the family income... Walker deftly negotiates the intersection of race, class, and gender. -- Journal of East Tennessee History
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