Standing Our Ground : Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal /

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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 sea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barry, Joyce M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Political activity
Landscape protection > Citizen participation
Environmental justice
Community activists
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Environmental justice > Appalachian Region.
Women > Political activity > Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Landscape protection > Appalachian Region > Citizen participation.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Appalachian Region.
Community activists > Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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