Just a Farmwife?: An Intergenerational, Intersectional Study of Women’s Labour on Southern Alberta’s Dutch Reformed Family Farms, 1950–2019

Through two-part intergenerational oral histories, this thesis explores the intersections of labour, gender, and lived religion in the lives of twelve Southern Alberta, Dutch Reformed women from family farms from the 1950s to 2019. By focusing on the broader lived experience of the women interviewed, and not just their physical labour on the farm, this thesis argues that women’s roles on the family farm were crucial, while complicating the narrative of farm women’s roles to show their multiple and often conflicting identities.

Publisher: University of New Brunswick