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Women of the Range : Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry
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Women of the Range : Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry Paperback - 2017

by Maret, Elizabeth

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  • Title Women of the Range : Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry
  • Author Maret, Elizabeth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
  • Date 2017-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47935880-6
  • ISBN 9780890965412 / 0890965412
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.6 x 0.53 in (21.51 x 14.22 x 1.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92045787
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.483

From the rear cover

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 and rancher, tells the story of the women who serve as an often unpaid labor force in this classic American enterprise. Through profiles of typical (and some atypical) women, with photographs she took of them at work, Maret shows how women serve not only as "keepers of the land", but also as a force for modernization in the cattle industry. The women she shows include a cattle fitter, sale barn manager, and herd health veterinarian. They are owners and managers of historic family ranches. They write computer software for planning optimal crossbreeding operations, they run equipment in artificial insemination companies, and they encourage industry emphasis on nutrition and consumer interests. Women have always been there, Maret shows, participating in ranching and the cattle industry as silent but active partners. Maret's portrait of their involvement and analysis of its significance will fascinate readers with an interest in ranching, social history, women's studies, and the sociology of work.

About the author

ELIZABETH MARET is the author of Women's Career Patterns: Influences on Work Stability.

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