Contents
Preface
Introduction / Linda M. Ambrose and Joan M. Jensen
Part 1: Education
1. The Professionalization of Farming for Women in Late Victorian Britain: The Role and Legacy of the Langham Place Feminists / Karen Sayer and Nicola Verdon
2. Good Farms, Markets, and Communities: Emily Hoag and Rural Women as Producers / Joan M. Jensen
3. Professionalizing Farm Women, Recognizing Their Integrated Food Roles: The Netherlands, 1880–1950 / Margreet van der Burg
Part 2: Experts
4. “Montana Extra Selects”: Harriette Cushman’s Quest to Market Montana Eggs for Montana People / Amy L. McKinney
5. The Chain of Interdependency: Apples from the Orchard to the Consumer / Anne L. Moore
6. Women’s Institutes in Canada and the United Kingdom: The Weighty Matters of Domestic Science, Home Economics, and Food Security / Linda M. Ambrose
Part 3: Extension
7. The Indefatigable Mrs. Webb: Food, Radio, and Rural Women—A Legacy of World War I / Maggie Andrews
8. African American Home Demonstration Agents in the Field and Rural Reform in Arkansas, 1914–1965 / Cherisse Jones-Branch
9. “Forever Lunching”: Food, Power, and Politics in Rural Ontario Women’s Organizations / Linda M. Ambrose
10. Frances Densmore and Mary Warren English: Indigenous Knowledge, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and the Politics of Food / Joan M. Jensen
Notes
Contributors
Index