Cultivating Community Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario |
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| Author:
| Nurse, Jodey |
| Series title: | McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-2280-0915-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2022 |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Cultivating Community explores women's critical involvement in agricultural fairs' growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women's roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.
Cultivating Community explores women's critical involvement in agricultural fairs' growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women's roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.