BOOK LAUNCH | Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario - Jodey Nurse

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: As part of the Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series, Jodey Nurse will be launching her new book, Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario. Hosted by the History Department at the University of Guelph. Please register by contacting bmendon@uoguelph.ca or through this link

https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable

Please join Jodey Nurse for her launch of Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Cultivating Community tells the story of how women’s involvement became critical to agricultural fairs’ growth and prosperity. By examining women’s diverse roles as agricultural society members, fair exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, Jodey Nurse shows that women used fairs’ manifold nature to present different versions of rural womanhood. Although traditional domestic skills and handicrafts, such as baking, needlework, and flower arrangement, remained the domain of women throughout this period, women steadily enlarged their sphere of influence on the fairgrounds. By the mid-twentieth century they had staked out a place in venues previously closed to them, including the livestock show ring, the athletic field, and the boardroom