To live here, you have to fight : how women led Appalachian movements for social justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilkerson, Jessica, 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urban, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:	Working class in American history.
Subjects:	Women > Political activity > Appalachian Region, Southern. Social action > Appalachian Region, Southern. Appalachian Region, Southern > Social conditions > 20th century. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The political and gender economy of the Mountain South, 1900-1964
"I was always interested in people's welfare" : bringing the war on poverty to Kentucky
"In the eyes of the poor, the Black, the youth" : poverty politics in Appalachia
March for survival : the Appalachian welfare rights movement
"The best care in history" : interdependence and the community health movement
"I'm fighting for my own children that I'm raising up" : women, labor, and protest in Harlan County
"Nothing worse than being poor and a woman" : feminism in the Mountain South.