Abstract
The intent of this thesis is to examine white, rural women of the South who were directly affected by home demonstration between 1920 - 1950 and to discuss their roles as producers and consumers in the expanding market economy. Home demonstration, a three-tiered bureaucratic agency that provided domestic education and production techniques to Southern women, played a major role in guiding women toward the expanding market economy. Agents often had to temper their programs in order to compromise with the women they served to accommodate rural restrictions on capital, capability, and confidence. By integrating rural women into a more modernized, less isolated, and more urbanized environment, home demonstration hoped to improve the lives of women through its focus on sanitation, nutrition, and efficiency within household production.
Thesis Completion
2019
Semester
Spring
Thesis Chair/Advisor
Lester, Connie
Degree
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
History
Degree Program
History
Language
English
Access Status
Open Access
Release Date
5-1-2019
Recommended Citation
Kaminski, Joseph J., "Farm Women as Producers & Consumers in the 20th Century U.S. South" (2019). Honors Undergraduate Theses. 509.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/509