Our Roots Run Deep As Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Name: Our Roots Run Deep As Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
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ISBN: 9780252079467

ISBN-10: 0252079469

ISBN-13: 9780252079467

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shannon Elizabeth Bell

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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, sociologist Shannon Elizabeth Bell presents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women, environmental justice activists fighting against mountaintop removal mining and its devastating effects on public health, regional ecology, and community well-being. Each woman narrates her own personal story of injustice and tells how that experience led her to activism. The interviews--many of them illustrated by the women's "photostories"--describe obstacles, losses, and tragedies. But they also tell of new communities…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English