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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. -- In VERMONT FARM WOMEN photographer Peter Miller profiles almost 50 women with accompanying black & white photographs. His subjects care for animals & the land. They're gardeners, dairy farmers, cheesemakers, maple sugarers. They grow vegetables & Christmas trees. They live & work in the Northeast Kingdom, central Vt., & Brattleboro. They represent all marital statuses. Some married established farmers & others started from scratch. All the women derive satisfaction from their livelihoods be it raising horses or operating sawmills. Hardcover book is oversized. -- no reviews | add a review
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Photographs and text of farm women'dairy, pigs, sheep, goats, emus, christmas trees, horses, beef cattle, cheese who work the small farm as owners and are passionate about their responsibility to the land, the animals and their community. No library descriptions found. |
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Over the history of the United States, farmers have mostly been men. Miller's choice to write a book both about Vermont, a radical place in many ways, and female farmers, is a feministic move that I applaud.
It seems as though much of the material in the book comes from around the year 2000, covering a more recent era than Miller's "Vermont People."
The book is both beautiful—for the romantic portrait of rural life that it provides, and tragic—in that the era of the self-sufficient homestead in Vermont has come to a close, with the state essentially having become an over-priced vacationland for city folks from Boston and New York.
If you find Vermont's aesthetic appealing, and have interest in farming and feminism, this is an excellent book. ( )