Description
The home demonstration club movement, a branch of the agricultural extension, brought together the more middle-class, ambitious farm women and girls, both as agents and club members, to seek changes in women's roles within the family and rural community during the years between the two world wars. An element of progressive reform overlooked by most historians, these clubs had an important impact on rural women. This project examines the evolution of club work in one Virginia county during the 1920s and 1930s to understand the reception of these ideas in the rural community.
