Standing our ground [electronic resource] : women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal / Joyce M. Barry.
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TextSeries: Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)ISBN: - 9780821444108
- Community activists -- Appalachian Region
- Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Appalachian Region
- Landscape protection -- Appalachian Region -- Citizen participation
- Mountaintop removal mining -- Social aspects -- Appalachian Region
- Women -- Political activity -- Appalachian Region
- Environmental justice -- Appalachian Region
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- GE235.A13 B37 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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