Women may not fit the common image of a rancher, but on the range and in the ranch office women are at home. With their parents, children, or spouses--or alone--women own, manage, and do the daily work of ranching, as they have since pioneer days. Increasingly, they also fill the productive roles of the highly technological industry growing up around beef cattle. Women of the Range describes the roles of women in the Texas cattle industry of the past, the present, and the likely future. Based on a decade of interviews, observation, and data analysis, Elizabeth Maret, a sociologist...
Women may not fit the common image of a rancher, but on the range and in the ranch office women are at home. With their parents, children, or spouses-...
"Primarily descriptive, this study raises issues of gender, ethnicity, and class which should stimulate further research. . . . Rural sociologists and historians alike will find Maret's study a valuable reference and a spur to further research." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly ." . . a valuable contribution to women's studies and the sociology of occupations."--Contemporary Sociology ." . . Maret's] greatest contribution may be the quantification of women's involvement and comparison of data for farm women with that for ranch women . . . this is an impressive and ground-breaking...
"Primarily descriptive, this study raises issues of gender, ethnicity, and class which should stimulate further research. . . . Rural sociologists and...
