Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
women, environmental justice, and the fight to end mountaintop removal |
Author: |
BarryJoyce M, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Athens, Ohio |
Published: |
Ohio University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
Description: |
1 online resource (208 p.). |
Series: |
Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia |
Subject: |
Community activists - Appalachian Region - |
Subject: |
Coal mines and mining - Environmental aspects - Appalachian Region - |
Subject: |
Landscape protection - Citizen participation - Appalachian Region - |
Subject: |
Mountaintop removal mining - Social aspects - Appalachian Region - |
Subject: |
Women - Political activity - Appalachian Region - |
Subject: |
Environmental justice - Appalachian Region - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821444108/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780821444108electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780821419977hbk. |
Content Note: |
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 andcultural identity in the anti/mountaintop removal movement -- Situating the particular and the universal: gender, environmental justice, and mountaintop removal in a global context |