| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lu Ann Jones. Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South. (Studies in Rural Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. pp. xiv, 250. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
Lu Ann Jones's book is a multifaceted portrayal of southern farm women, both black and white, during the first half of the twentieth century. Jones is motivated by the need to remedy the historical invisibility of twentieth-century southern farm women, who, in her words, have "remained hidden in plain sight" (p. 2), and by her more personal desire to understand better her late mother's experiences as a farm wife in rural North Carolina. The book succeeds at both levels, primarily because the texture of its oral histories and Jones's adroit use of other sources allow her to explore the interplay of broad social and economic forces of change with the more personal realities of life on the farm.	1
As her title suggests, Jones's primary focus is on rural women as producers and contributors to the household economy. Southern farm women produced for the market as well as for their families, but, in contrast to the big cash crops of the region, those efforts left less of a paper trail of historical evidence. Still, their more modest trade in eggs, butter, and chickens, as well as other domestically produced foodstuffs, often made a critical difference to the welfare of southern farm families, especially during the Great Depression or when the husband drank too much. In the aggregate, farm women in the Carolinas received over $33 million for their products in 1929, more than ten percent of the value of the grains, cotton, and tobacco raised by their men.	. . .

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