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Standing our ground : women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barry, Joyce M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Series:Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
Subjects:
Environmental justice > Appalachian Region.
Women > Political activity > Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Landscape protection > Appalachian Region > Citizen participation.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Appalachian Region.
Community activists > Appalachian Region.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Living in a sacrifice zone: gender, the political economy of coal, and anti/mountaintop removal activism
  • Gender and anti/mountaintop removal activism: expanding the environmental justice framework
  • Remembering the past, working for the future: West Virginia women fight for sustainable communities and environmental heritage
  • Saving the endangered hillbilly: Appalachian stereotypes and cultural identity in the anti/mountaintop removal movement
  • Situating the particular and the universal: gender, environmental justice, and mountaintop removal in a global context.