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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice /
Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization. In this collection of interviews, the author, a sociologist, presents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women. These women are environmental justice...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- How can they expect me as a mother to look over that? : Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety
- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters
- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland
- You gotta go and do everything you can - fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections
- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter
- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky
- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks
- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school
- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain
- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal
- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! : the legacy of the courageous Julia "Judy" Bonds.