With These Hands: Women Working on the Land (Women's Lives, Women's Work)

   Beginning with the Native Americans who were working the land when the first Europeans arrived in North America, Jensen's unique collection traces the history of farm women of all races in the United States. Their complex lives emerge through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, journal entreies, poetry, and oral history. The volume documents rural women's hard work and love of the land, their family relationships, consciousness of racism and sexism, views of politics and farm policies, and activities aimed at change.