On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945

In On Behalf of the Family Farm, Jenny Barker Devine demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with an activism that reflected their own feminine vision of farm life. Focusing on women in four national farm organizations in Iowa-the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farmers Organization, and the Porkettes-Devine highlights specific moments in time when farm women had to reassess their roles and strategies for pre serving and improving their way of life.