Ralph and Myrtle Mae Borsodi, two early twentieth century back-to-the-land writers based in rural New York state, wrote the rural agrarian smallholding as a kind of refugium, a philosophical and physical site for those self-sufficient smallholders to survive, even thrive, through an expected US cultural extinction. The centre of their back-to-the-land agrarian refugium is the heterocouple complete with attached gendered roles and expectations. For this self-sufficiency promoting couple, the rural back-to-the-land homestead was the future of a new and better America made up of decentralised, self-sufficient farms and workshops run by those Ralph termed 'quality-minded men'. Indeed, both in their writings and in real life, their self-sufficiency rested on the backs of urban factory workers, the poor and, most likely, people of colour - domestic labourers. Such exploitation was not incidental, but a key component of the ideal world imagined by this couple.

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Ralph 和 Myrtle Mae Borsodi 将回归土地视为大萧条期间白人异父制避难所的愿景

Ralph 和 Myrtle Mae Borsodi 是 20 世纪早期在纽约州农村的两位回归土地的作家，他们将农村小农场写成一种避难所，是那些自给自足的小农生存的哲学和物理场所，甚至繁荣，通过预期的美国文化灭绝。他们回归土地的农业避难所的中心是异性恋，并带有附加的性别角色和期望。对于这对提倡自给自足的夫妇来说，农村返乡宅基地是一个新的、更美好的美国的未来，这个美国由分散的、自给自足的农场和由拉尔夫（Ralph）称为“有质量意识的人”经营的作坊组成。事实上，无论是在他们的著作中还是在现实生活中，他们的自给自足都依赖于城市工厂工人、穷人，而且很可能是，有色人种——家务劳动者。这种剥削不是偶然的，而是这对夫妇想象的理想世界的关键组成部分。