Description:
Women 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...
Brief description: Nancy Grey Osterud is Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State University.
Review Quotes:
In Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State.
-- "Contemporary Sociology"