Fashioning Farmers: Ideology, Agricultural Knowledge and the Manitoba Farm Movement, 1890-1925
- ISBN-10
- 0889770840
- ISBN-13
- 9780889770843
- Category
- Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
- Pages
- 162
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center
- Authors
- University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center, Jeffery M. Taylor
Description
This booklet assesses how, in a specific time and place and through specific discourses, the identities of farm women and men were moulded. Topics covered are: ideologies, educational institutions and popular resistance in Manitoba; public educational institutions in Manitoba agriculture; theoretical categories in the dominant ideology; the practical creation of dominant agrarian identities; and, the language of agrarianism.
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