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RECORD NUMBER: 2898 OF 3440Main Title | Standing our ground : women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal / | |||||||||||
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Author | Barry, Joyce M. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Ohio University Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2012 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 768800649 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780821419977 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 0821419978 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 9780821444108 (electronic); 0821444107 (electronic) | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
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Collation | xii, 190 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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. |