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Cultivating Community explores women's critical involvement in agricultural fairs' growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women's roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.

Agricultural exhibitions. --- Women in agriculture. --- 4-H. --- OAAS. --- Ontario association. --- agricultural societies. --- art. --- baking. --- biography. --- community service. --- competition. --- cooperation. --- domesticity. --- entertainment. --- exhibitions. --- fall fairs. --- fancywork. --- farming. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- food. --- gardening. --- household economy. --- improvement. --- industry. --- leadership. --- lesiure. --- livestock. --- manufactures. --- material culture. --- recreation. --- refinement. --- respectability. --- rural women. --- voluntary organizations. --- womanhood.