Journal
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 137-149Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-011-9330-1
Keywords
Agriculture; Gender; Masculinity; Tobacco; Diversification; Kentucky
Funding
- American Association of University Women
- Kentucky Oral History Commission
- Ohio State University Center for Folklore Studies, Department of English, and College of the Humanities
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This paper offers a case study based on qualitative research in the burley tobacco region of central Kentucky, where farmers are urged to diversify away from tobacco production. Replacing tobacco is difficult for economic and material reasons, but also because raising tobacco is commensurate with a locally valued way of masculinity. The focus is on these two questions: How can the doing of work associated with tobacco production and marketing be understood as also a particular masculinity? What does an understanding of farm work as a simultaneous of gender illuminate about the challenges of diversification away from tobacco? Asking tobacco farmers to grow something else is also asking them to gender differently, suggesting that the transition away from tobacco must be understood as a gendered transition. This research, focused primarily on male farmers who continue to raise tobacco, suggests the need for gendered research with women and men who have moved away from tobacco to other crops.
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