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. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.