The Proof Is in the Dough by Kathryn L. Beasley - 9780820367927

The Proof Is in the DoughRural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money\nAuthor(s): Kathryn L. Beasley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820367927, 978-0820367927\nSynopsis\nThe Proof Is in the Dough examines how rural white and African American women in Alabama and Florida used the Cooperative Extension Services home demonstration programming between 1914 and 1929 as a means to earn extra income. Kathryn L. Beasley explores an area of rural womens history that has not been closely examinedthat is, how rural American women involved with home demonstration used the skills they learned as a way to better themselves economically. Furthermore, Beasley traces how this extra income allowed these women to shape their own producing and consuming habits. \n\nWhile most home demonstration programming during the Progressive Era and 1920s focused on ways to save moneyamong other objectivesrural women in.