Der Atlas prasentiert in optisch eindrucksvoller Weise die Verbreitung umgangssprachlicher Bezeichnungen in den einzelnen Teilen des deutschen Sprachgebiets. Wo man"e;Metzger"e; sagt und wo"e;Fleischer"e;, und wo man eine Turklinke"e;Turdrucker"e; und wo"e;Turschnalle"e; nennt, lat sich im WDU auf einen Blick ablesen. Die vier Bande enthalten insgesamt 227 Wortkarten sowie, als Anhang zu den Banden 2 und 4, 40 Karten zur Verbreitung regionaler Besonderheiten in Aussprache und Grammatik der deutschen Gegegenwartssprache.

Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Working on the Land -- History from the Inside-out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America -- Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study -- The Ideal Woman in the Antebellum South: Lady or Farmwife? -- The Role and Status of the Female Yeomanry in the Antebellum South: The Literary View -- Not Gainfully Employed: Women on the Iowa Frontier, 18331870 -- Images of the Frontierswoman: Iowa as a Case Study -- "You May Depend She Does Not Eat Much Idle Bread": Mid-Atlantic Farm Women and Their Historians -- Forgotten Persephones: Women Farmers on the Frontier -- Autonomy and Dependency in the Lives of Dakota Women: A Study in Historical Change -- Female Planters and Planters Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 18501870 -- Black Women in American Agriculture -- Women Homesteaders on the Great Plains Frontier -- Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 18421867 -- A Helpmate for Man Indeed The Image of the Frontier Woman -- Women in the Agricultural Settlement of the Northern Plains -- Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision -- Single Women Homesteaders in Wyoming, 18801930 -- Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Womans Experience -- Farm Womens Roles in the Agricultural Development of South Dakota -- Howre You Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm?: Rural Women and the Urban Model in Utah -- Ive Worked, Im Not Afraid of Work: Farm Women in New Mexico, 19201940 -- The Ideal Rural Southern Woman as Seen by Progressive Farmer in the 1930s -- Copyright Information -- Index