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Borish, Linda Jane. "The Lass of the Farm': Health, Domestic Roles, and the Culture of Farm Women in Hartford County, Connecticut, 1820-1870," University of Maryland, College Park, June 1990.
Nineteenth-century middle-class reformers such as Catharine Beecher perceived rural women as models of perfect health. Yet in the rural community of Hartford, Connecticut, 1820-1870, a dramatically different perspective emerged. Female agriculturists and male reform allies clashed with male defenders of the status quo in analyzing females’ health and quality of life. Farm women cited gender conflict as a source of their gloomy lives. Farm daughters wanted to quit the farm and experienced a rise in expectations. To improve farm women’s physical and mental well-being and to stem the home-leaving tide, agricultural reformers promoted drastic changes in farm life. Based on women’s private and published writings, farm journals, medical and agricultural society papers, and material culture, this study indicates that the rural-urban dichotomy in health advanced by cultural thinkers and historians jarred with farm women’s own health.
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