Feminist Politics on the Farm

Download or read book Feminist Politics on the Farm written by Naomi Black and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women studied were clearly progressive in their opinions and the authors show that their original and varied opinions cast doubt on much of the standard literature about non-elite women's understanding of mainstream politics and the women's movement. These rural women differed significantly from the usual stereotypes of farm women as apolitical and conservative. Nor were they the reactionaries implied by theories of modernization. Instead, they were supportive of women's political activism, and of their equality and self-assertiveness, and were as feminist as other women in Canada and France.