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Standing Our Ground : Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal.
Title:
Standing Our Ground : Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal.
Author:
Barry, Joyce M.
ISBN:
9780821444108
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (167 pages)
Series:
Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE: Living in a Sacrifice Zone: Gender, the Political Economy of Coal, and Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activism -- TWO: Gender and Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activism: Expanding the Environmental Justice Framework -- THREE: Remembering the Past, Working for the Future: West Virginia Women Fight for Sustainable Communities and Environmental Heritage -- FOUR: Saving the Endangered Hillbilly: Appalachian Stereotypes and Cultural Identity in the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement -- FIVE: Situating the Particular and the Universal: Gender, Environmental Justice, and Mountaintop Removal in a Global Context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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