women homemaking and social skills.
Times have dramatically changed for
women, McCarty said.
When the club abandoned the
USDA’s program and changed names in
1965, a multitude of women continued
to gather. That didn’t last.
“We have had enough [women] that
there wasn’t enough room for everybody,
but that’s in times past,” McCarty said.
“The year I made the quilt that put the
[new] roof on, I was down here probably
10 days quilting because we just didn’t
have anybody. Our women, they went
to work. We lost [some]. We’d lose one
here and there and yonder. In fact, we’re
still losing them going to work.”
Liberation from the beliefs-goneby that women are to be strictly
homemakers came with some other
changes. Discussing the club’s minutes
and historical documents from its early
years, McCarty said it might be hard for
an outsider to discern who was who
because women’s identities used to be
wrapped up in their husbands’.
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