Maman, Marie, and Thelma H. Tate. Women in Agriculture: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1996. 298p.

Ogden, Annegret S. The Great American Housewife: From Helpmate to Wage Earner, 1776-1986. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Downing, Marvin. "Woodley Farm, Martin, Tennessee." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 38 (1984): 51-68.
Includes coverage of Elizabeth Rast ("Miss Lizzie") Freeman's work on the farm. For example, the author notes how "Miss Lizzie" decided when to kill hogs, and describes how she made sausage.

Downing, Marvin, ed. The West Tennessee Farm. Martin, Tenn.: University of Tennessee at Martin, 1979. Some of the numerous photographs in this collection depict women working on a farm.

Hoffschwelle, Mary Sara. "Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community: Reformers, Schools, and Homes in Tennessee, 1914-1929." Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1993.

---. "Women's Sphere and the Creation of Female Community in the Antebellum South: Three Tennessee Slaveholding Women." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 50 (Summer 1991): 80-89.

Lester, Connie L. "'Let Us Be Up and Doing': Women in the Tennessee Movements for Agrarian Reform, 1870-1892." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54 (Summer 1995): 80-97.

Mohammed, Suhayla Shuker. "A History of the Development of Extension Home Economics Programs for Rural Women in Tennessee, 1910-1939, with Application to the Development of Similar Work in Iraq." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1978.

Walker, Melissa. "'All We Knew was to Farm': Gender, Class, Race and Change Among East Tennessee Farm Women, 1920-1941." Ph.D. diss., Clark University, 1996.

------. "Home Extension Work Among African American Farm Women in East Tennessee, 1920-1939." Agricultural History 70 (Summer 1996): 487-502.

------. "'Making Do and Doing Without': East Tennessee Farm Women Cope with Economic Crisis, 1920-1941." Journal of East Tennessee History 68 (1996): 8-30.

------. "A Smile on Her Face and a Song on Her Lips: Home Extension Work Among East Tennessee Farm Women During the Agricultural Depression of the 1920's." Southern Historian 15 (Spring 1994): 51-66.

West, Carroll Van. Tennessee Agriculture: A Century Farms Perspective. Nashville: Tennessee Department of Agriculture, 1986.

Zhito, Lisa. "The Homeplace - 1850, A Celebration of Tennessee History." Tennessee Conservationist 62 (May/June 1996): 36-38.

Manuscripts/Archives

Nashville Housewives League. Records, 1939-61. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

Virginia P. Moore Collection. Special Collections, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Online container list: http://www.lib.utk.edu:80/UTK-Online-Catalog/manuscripts/a1546