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Standing our ground : women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal / Joyce M. Barry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barry, Joyce M.
- Series:
- Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
- Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental justice--Appalachian Region.
- Environmental justice.
- Women--Political activity--Appalachian Region.
- Women.
- Mountaintop removal mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region.
- Mountaintop removal mining.
- Landscape protection--Appalachian Region--Citizen participation.
- Landscape protection.
- Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Appalachian Region.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Community activists--Appalachian Region.
- Community activists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry's book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as th
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821444108
- 0821444107
- OCLC:
- 821733453
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