Elaine Weiss is a journalist and narrative non-fiction author. Her magazine feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, and her by-line has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as reports and documentaries for National Public Radio and Voice of America. She has been a frequent correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Prelude: Liberty Day
Part One: The Girl With a Hoe Behind the Man With a Gun 1. The Right to Serve: A British Land Army 2. Female Preparedness 3. An Agricultural Army 4. Suffrage Agriculture 5. Soil Sisters 6. A Feminine Invasion of the Land: The Bedford Camp 7. Farmerettes and Hoover Helpers: Fall 1917 8. Women on the Land 9. A Hysterical Appeal 10. A Fine Propaganda: The Fair Farmerette and Her Publicity Machine 11. Enlist Now!
Part Two: The Patriot Farmette 12. In Bifurcated Garb of Toil: California 13. Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland 14. Cultivating the Soothing Weed: Connecticut 15. Libertyville: Illinois 16. Girls Who Thought Potatoes Grew on Trees: New England 17. The Farmerette in Wanamaker’s Window: Selling the Land Army in New Jersey 18. Georgia Cotton 19. Harsh Terrain 20. Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station 21. Tiller, Planter, Gleaner: New York 22. Marriage of Convenience 23. A Hungry World 24. Carry On 25. Farmerette Redux: 1919 and Beyond