Barry, Joyce M.

Standing our ground women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal / [electronic resource] : Joyce M. Barry. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012. - xii, 190 p. : map. - Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia .

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Environmental justice--Appalachian Region.
Women--Political activity--Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region.
Landscape protection--Citizen participation.--Appalachian Region
Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Appalachian Region.
Community activists--Appalachian Region.


Electronic books.

GE235.A13 / B37 2012eb

622/.334