Daughters of the Mountain : : Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia / / Suzanne E. Tallichet.
Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern We...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Digging In: Coping with Sexualized Work Relations
- 2 From Red Cap to Coal Miner: Adaptation and Advancement Underground
- 3 Ours in Solidarity: Women Miners and the umwa
- 4 Over the Long Haul: Accommodation and Resistance to the Culture of Coal Mining
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Fieldwork and Profiles of the Study
- References
- Index