Description: The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury--yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.
Brief description: Melissa Walker is an associate professor of history at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Review Quotes: Walker does a particularly good job of emphasizing the ambivalence that upcountry farm women felt about leaving the farms . . . All We Knew Was to Farm makes an extremely important contribution to rural literature by gendering the transformation of the upland South.
--Rebecca Sharpless, Georgia Historical Quarterly