1. For the purpose of this article, feminism is defined as the analysis of women's subordination. There are several schools of feminism including radical, socialist, liberal or reform and post-modern. The writer favours the radical feminist approach
2. Farm women are defined as those women who live on farms and properties. Both James ( 1989 , p.2) and Kelly (1982, p.2) estimate that this could be as many as one and a quarter million women in Australia
3. Many of the studies referred to in this article are American. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, there is a dearth of research on Australian farm women. Secondly, farming families in America, who have been studied extensively, operate in similar economic and social conditions to Australian farm families
4. Baxter Janeen Gibson Diane Kingston Coralie ( 1988 ), ‘Rural Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Beyond the Dichotomy’ , Australian and New Zealand Sociological Association Annual Meeting , Canberra , November