{"product_id":"bonds-of-community-nancy-grey-osterud-9780801425103","title":"Bonds of Community: Literary Texts and Political Models","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a \"separate sphere.\" Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and organizational records, to reconstruct the everyday lives of ordinary women of the past. Exploring large questions within the confines of a single community, she analyzes the ways in which notions of gender structured women's interactions with their families and neighbors, their place in the farm family economy, and their participation in organized community activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare turn-of-the-century photographs of the rural landscape, formal and informal family portraits, and scenes of daily life and labor add a special dimension to \u003ci\u003eBonds of Community\u003c\/i\u003e. It should find a ready audience among women's historians, labor historians, rural historians, and historians of New York State.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Grey Osterud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801425107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801425103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Nancy Grey Osterud","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621788823807,"sku":"9780801425103","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bonds-of-community-nancy-grey-osterud-9780801425103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}