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Women of the Mountain South : identity, work, and activism /
"Scholars of southern Appalachia have tended to focus their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Ohio University Press series in ethnicity and gender in Appalachia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Tapestry of Voices; Part 1: Identity and Women of the Mountain South; Chapter 1: Women in Cherokee Society- Status, Race, and Power from the Colonial Period to Removal; Chapter 2: Mothers' Day v. Mother's Day- The Jarvis Women and the Meaning of Motherhood; Chapter 3: Female Stereotypes and the Creationof Appalachia, 1870-1940; Chapter 4: Women on a Mission- Southern Appalachia's "Benevolent Workers" on Film; Chapter 5: Embodying Appalachia- Progress, Pride, and Beauty Pageantry, 1930sto the Present; Moravian Lebenslauf (Memoir or Life's Journey).
- Petition for DivorceWomen of the Mountains; Rebel in the Mosque: Going Where I Know I Belong; An Undocumented Mexican Mother of a High School Dropout in East Tennessee; Part 2: Women and Work inAppalachia; Chapter 6: Challenging the Myth of Separate Spheres; Chapter 7: Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem- Prostitution in Wheeling during the Civil War; Chapter 8: Professionalizing "Mountain Work" in Appalachia- Women in the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers; Chapter 9: "'Two fer' the Money"?- African American Women in the Appalachian Coalfields.
- Chapter 10: Flopping Tin and Punching Metal- A Survey of Women Steelworkers in West Virginia,1890-1970The Indenture of Mary Hollens; The Testimony of Mrs. Maggie Waters; A Working Woman Speaks; The Pikeville Methodist Hospital Strike; Poetry from the Coal Mining Women's Support Team News; Part 3: Women and Activism in the Mountain South; Chapter 11: nIn the Footsteps of Mother Jones, Mothers of the Miners- Florence Reece, Molly Jackson, and Sarah Ogan Gunning; Chapter 12: "She Now Cries Out"- Linda Neville and the Limitations of Venereal Disease Control Policies in Kentucky.
- Chapter 13: Garrison, Drewry, Meadows, and Bateman- Race, Class, and Activism in the Mountain StateChapter 14: Ethel New v. Atlantic Greyhound- Fighting for Social Justice in Appalachia; Chapter 15: "Remembering the Past, Workingfor the Future"- West Virginia Women Fight for Environmental Heritage and Economic Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; The Petition of Margaret Lee; The Fight for Suffrage; Abortion in the Mountain South; Helen Louise Gibson Compton: Founder and Proprietor of The Shamrock.
- At the Intersection of Cancer Survivorship, Gender, Family, and Place in Southern Central Appalachia- A Case StudyEpilogue: Reflections on the Concept of Place in the Study of Women in the Mountain South; Contributors; Index.