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I think a very intresting point Faragher brought up is the role childbareing played in the female farmer's role on the farm. How is this similar/different to an understanding of work before and after childbirth elseware in location and history? - Stephen | I think a very intresting point Faragher brought up is the role childbareing played in the female farmer's role on the farm. How is this similar/different to an understanding of work before and after childbirth elseware in location and history? - Stephen | ||
| − | I have to say that I did like this article because it did paint women as having to be this picture perfect ideal woman, it was what real women did in the midwest to help support the family. Which is awesome compared to Mintz and Kellogg who consider basically urban middle-class New Englanders the way the US was at the time. It drives me nuts because its obvious that places in the United States was vastly different and this article is a perfect example, the women are planting crops, milking cows, feeding livestock, butchering, cooking, sewing, weaving, mending, etc. This article I feel provides an awesome incite into what families did do to survive. They all bucked up and did their share, however tiresome to get by, to live, to survive. --Ashley Wilkins | + | I have to say that I did like this article because it did not paint women as having to be this picture perfect ideal woman, it was what real women did in the midwest to help support the family. Which is awesome compared to Mintz and Kellogg who consider basically urban middle-class New Englanders the way the US was at the time. It drives me nuts because its obvious that places in the United States was vastly different and this article is a perfect example, the women are planting crops, milking cows, feeding livestock, butchering, cooking, sewing, weaving, mending, etc. This article I feel provides an awesome incite into what families did do to survive. They all bucked up and did their share, however tiresome to get by, to live, to survive. --Ashley Wilkins |
| − | I found the economic aspect of this article to be particularly interesting. Faragher briefly discusses the Market Revolution, which we touched upon in class, explaining the changes in farming due to market opportunity as well as market competition. I think this is one of the first times we have really have been able to see how technology has directly influenced the family. The introduction of farm tools, particularly an evolution away from hand tools, plus the introduction of improved and more widespread transportation allowed farmers to produce and sell more to a wider population, thus changing the role and responsibility of a farming family. I think it is important to remember that these farmers first relied on a local market for goods exchange and the opportunity to move beyond sustenance farming and then to a wider market as it became available. I believe that is where Faragher challenged the idea of farm self-sufficiency as isolated and impoverished since there was a significant change within local communities as well as local and larger markets, thus forcing farmers to interact socially and economically as well as view farming as a way to obtain other goods or money, not simply survive. – Mary Beth | + | I found the economic aspect of this article to be particularly interesting. Faragher briefly discusses the Market Revolution, which we touched upon in class, explaining the changes in farming due to market opportunity as well as market competition. I think this is one of the first times we have really have been able to see how technology has directly influenced the family. The introduction of farm tools, particularly an evolution away from hand tools, plus the introduction of improved and more widespread transportation allowed farmers to produce and sell more to a wider population, thus changing the role and responsibility of a farming family. I think it is important to remember that these farmers first relied on a local market for goods exchange and the opportunity to move beyond sustenance farming and then to a wider market as it became available. I believe that is where Faragher challenged the idea of farm self-sufficiency as isolated and impoverished since there was a significant change within local communities as well as local and larger markets, thus forcing farmers to interact socially and economically as well as view farming as a way to obtain other goods or money, not simply survive. – Mary Beth |
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