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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.



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“In the ongoing scholarship around the question ‘Is there a rural feminism?,’ Nurse makes a major contribution with her research on women claiming space in the public domain and inserting themselves into the management of fair boards and agricultural societies. The writing is delightful and the argument is skilfully woven throughout.” Linda M. Ambrose, Laurentian University

Cultivating Community

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      Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780228009153, 978-0228009153
      ISBN10: 0228009154

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      “In the ongoing scholarship around the question ‘Is there a rural feminism?,’ Nurse makes a major contribution with her research on women claiming space in the public domain and inserting themselves into the management of fair boards and agricultural societies. The writing is delightful and the argument is skilfully woven throughout.” Linda M. Ambrose, Laurentian University

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