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Author Barry, Joyce M.

Title Standing our ground [electronic resource] : women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal / Joyce M. Barry.

Imprint Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 190 p. : map.
Series Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821419977 (hc alk. paper)
9780821444108 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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