This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct their farmer identity. Drawing on interviews with seventeen first generation female farmers it demonstrates a detraditionalized farmer identity created in response to concern for environmental and social sustainability. They are enabled by an online, global community of practice and shifting narratives of what constitutes responsible farming. Participants leveraged their skills from previous occupations to their farming enterprises to internalize a managerial and entrepreneurial farming identity. First generation female farmers have been empowered as new actors in Australian agriculture, reflecting a disruption in traditional patterns of gendered privilege.

本文考察了既未结婚也未出生于农业的澳大利亚女性农民的经历，以及她们如何构建农民身份。通过对十七位第一代女性农民的采访，它表明了农民对环境和社会可持续性的关注产生了非传统的身份。它们由在线的全球实践社区和对负责任耕作构成的叙事方式的转变而实现。参与者将以前的职业中的技能应用于他们的农业企业，以内部化管理和企业家的农业身份。第一代女农民被赋予了澳大利亚农业新角色的权力，这反映了传统的性别特权模式的破坏。