Fruits of Victory

Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Rivetera generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the farmerette of the Woman''s Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man''s job on the home front during World War I.

From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nat...