FARMERS, FLIVVERS, AND FAMILY LIFE: THE IMPACT OF MOTORING ON RURAL WOMEN AND THEIR KIN
The central theme of this essay is that the mass adoption of the automobile in rural communities had a profound impact on the travel that rural Americans undertook, especially for women. Trips to other farmsteads and into "town" became more frequent. Formerly distant recreational sites were transformed into day trips, which even the busiest farm family could undertake from time to time. And finally, the overnight, long-distance trip became so common that by 1926 a survey revealed that farmers were the single largest occupational group visiting one national park. As a result, changes were wrought in the manner in which rural Americans perceived the spatial environment in which they lived, the social and economic relationships that developed within it, and the uses to which they put the land on which they lived and worked.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Arizona, Tucson
Drachman Institute, 819 E First Street
Tucson, AZ United States 85721Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD United States 21251Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Berger, M L
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Conference:
- Women's Travel Issues Second National Conference
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Date: 1996-10-0 to 1996-10-0
- Publication Date: 1998-7-30
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 9p
- Monograph Title: WOMEN'S TRAVEL ISSUES: PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobiles; Business trips; Distance; Economic impacts; Families; Farming; Farms; Females; Impacts; Land use; Recreational trips; Rural areas; Social impacts
- Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00925779
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Jun 11 2002 12:00AM