U.S. farm women, politics and policy

Haney, Wava G.; Miller, Lorna Clancy

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“…These women saw themselves as part of the family enterprise (1985, p. 268). In a similar way, the primary concerns of the US farm women's group WIFE are the family farm and farm family welfare rather than themselves as farm women (Haney and Miller, 1991). Australian farm women have similar problems with the idea of feminism (Alston, 1990;James, 1982).…”

Section: Farm Women's Organizations and Farming Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Shortall

2001

Gender Work & Organization

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One striking feature of farming as an occupation is that there are few women who farm in their own right. The passing of land from father to son means that women rarely own land. Their typical entry to farming is through marriage. Women's route of entry to farming affects interpersonal relationships within the family, and also women's role in the public space of farming. Women are under-represented in farming organizations, in training programmes, and in the politics of farming.This article focuses on the position of women within farming organizations and the interaction between (male) farming organizations and women's farming organizations. Farmers are an extremely well-organized occupation and wield considerable political power because of this effective organization. However, farming organizations are almost entirely male. This article examines how women are treated within farming organizations, and also the interaction between (male) farming organizations and women's farming organizations. Drawing on the theory of organizations, I argue that the inclusion of women in farming organizations and the existence of women's farming organizations reinforce gender divisions within agriculture and do not in any way question the understanding of men as farmers, or the political power they hold.

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Section: Farm Women's Organizations and Farming Organizationsmentioning

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“…One alternative to the obstacles women face in mainstream farming organizations is the formation of farm women's organizations. Farm women's organizations have emerged in a number of countries, for example, Australia (Teather, 1996), the USA (Haney and Miller, 1991), and Canada (Shortall, , 1997.…”

Section: Farm Women's Organizationsmentioning

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Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Shortall

2001

Gender Work & Organization

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“…One area of women's agricultural participation which is less understood concerns the way women engage with their industry in a political sense. If farming has been considered a male dominated sector, then agricultural politics and policy arenas are seen to be even more so (Alston 1995a;Haney and Miller 1991;Kinnon 1992;Shortall 1992). Women's experience in these arenas, the focus of this paper, is a relatively new area of study.…”

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Fields of Action: Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s¹

Liepins

1998

Rural Sociology

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In recent years, women's contribution to farming has been increasingly recognized by academics, decision makers, and some sectors of the farming community. In contrast, women's activism in agricultural politics is less well accepted or understood. This paper investigates data from a number of farm activist groups operating on a variety of scales in Australia. The paper examines the ways in which farm women develop political agency and then mobilize across a number of "fields of action" to effect both personal and industry-wide change.

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“…LTHOUGH THE RESEARCH literature on gender and agriculture originated with early studies conducted at the level of the farm unit, contemporary literature extends debates further to incorporate analyses of gender, identity, subjectivity and power in agricultural communities, industries, law and media (Brandth and Haugen 1997;Brandth 1995;Haney and Miller 1991;Liepins 1996Liepins , 1998bMackenzie 1992a;Shortall 1994;Teather 1996;Voyce 1994). Sally Shortall's (1996) recent analysis of Irish agricultural training is an example of this latter scholarship.…”

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Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training

Liepins

Schick

1998

Sociologia Ruralis

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LTHOUGH THE RESEARCH literature on gender and agriculture originated with early studies conducted at the level of the farm unit, contemporary literature extends debates further to incorporate analyses of gender, identity, subjectivity and power in agricultural communities, industries, law and media recent analysis of Irish agricultural training is an example of this latter scholarship. Using the research literatures on gender and equality of educational opportunity, Shortall argues that education, as a particular instance of wider social and cultural institutions, provides a medium for processes and structures that support different experiences and opportunities for men and women in agriculture. Shortall's analysis is unusual, and important, in that she focuses on agricultural training as a source both of information and status, and as an arena in which the gendering of agriculture is produced and reproduced.In this paper 1 we propose a framework for developing a critical gender analysis of agricultural training. We respond to, and extend, Shortall's analysis of the gendering of agricultural training. Our aim is to develop a theoretical base which supports research and evaluation of gender issues in educational programmes. 2 In particular, we establish three conceptual tools and a framework for analysis which we can apply to our current investigation of agricultural training programmes. 3 To date, analyses of women and agricultural education have emphasized curricula, culture and the organization of farm work as factors supporting male access and participation in training. While this empirical heritage is crucial to our work it also suggests to us that greater attention to certain key concepts would A

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U.S. farm women, politics and policy

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Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Fields of Action: Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s¹

Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training

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Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training

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