And on that Farm He Had a Wife

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And on that Farm He Had a Wife is written by Monda M. Halpern and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773521852 (ISBN 10) and 9780773521858 (ISBN 13).

Focusing on white Anglo-Protestant farm women in southern and southwestern Ontario, Monda Halpern argues that many Ontario farm women were indeed feminist, and that this feminism was more progressive than their conservative image has suggested. In And On That Farm He Had a Wife Halpern demonstrates that Ontario farm women adhered to social feminism - a feminism that focused on values and experiences associated with women and that emphasized the differences between women and men, promoting female specificity, solidarity, and separatism. These principles were informed by farm women's overlapping roles as wives and unpaid farm labourers.