A BIT ABOUT ME
Meet Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
I started as a journalist, but discovered the very long form article known as a dissertation. My work focuses on the Farm Crisis, reminding historians & pundits alike that rural voices have an important role in American political culture. My broad interests are in grassroots political sentiment & the way people understand their own political economies.
RECENT ARTICLES
DESPERATE FARM WIVES: GENDER, ACTIVISM AND TRADITIONALISM IN THE FARM CRISIS
Middle West Review - Vol. 2 No. 1 Fall 2015
This article examines the way in which women who were farm activists carefully balanced 'modern' assertive feminism with traditionalist images and rhetoric of motherhood, wifehood and femininity in order to make their case for family farming during its moment of crisis .
