Feature Story: Mainly for Women

Abstract

The experience of women living on Prairie farms in the 1930s came alive for undergraduate history student Brandi Adams when she delved into the archives of The Western Producer, a farm weekly that's been an important source of news for farm families for almost 100 years.

Working with digital copies of October issues of the paper published over a 12-year span between the two World Wars, Adams read countless letters and articles written by women of the time and published in the paper's "Mainly for Women" section.