UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 194 Document Number: C35766
Notes:
Contains 12 program segments by Lee Kline, long-time farm broadcaster at WHO Radio, Des Moines, Iowa. Among the topics: interesting Iowans, sounds of farm machinery, characters, talking birds, old fiddlers, Iowa writers, the auctioneers, the presidents, an unusual talent, an innovator, the inventor, "Our best Christmas." Total program length: 72 minutes.
