Women of the Mountain South : identity, work, and activism /

Women of the Mountain South : identity, work, and activism /

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Imprint:Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Race, ethnicity and gender in Appalachia
Ohio University Press series in ethnicity and gender in Appalachia.
Subject:
Women -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
Women -- Political activity -- Appalachian Region.
Women -- Political activity.
Women -- Social conditions.
Appalachian Region.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241159
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Other authors / contributors:Rice, Connie Park.
Tedesco, Marie.
ISBN:9780821445228
0821445227
9780821421505
0821421506
9780821421512
0821421514
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"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 Tedesco redress this imbalance, telling the stories of these women and calling attention to the varied demographics of those who call the mountains home. The essays that make up Women of the Mountain South contradict and debunk entrenched stereotypes of Appalachian women as poor and white, and they bring to life women too often neglected in the history of the region. Each focuses on a particular individual or a particular group, but taken as a whole, they illustrate the diversity of women who live in the region and the richness of their life experiences. The Mountain South has been home to Cherokee, African American, Latina, and white women, both rich and poor. Civil rights and gay rights advocates, environmental and labor activists, prostitutes, and coal miners & thinsp;-- & thinsp;all have worked, played, and loved in the place called the Mountain South and added to the fullness of its history and culture. The collection is supplemented with key documents that make the volume ideal for the classroom. Contributors: H. Adam Ackley, Katherine Lane Antolini, Joyce M. Barry, Deborah L. Blackwell, Carletta A. Bush, Wilma A. Dunaway, Barbara J. Howe, John C. Inscoe, Lois Lucas, Penny Messinger, Louis C. Martin, Evelyn Ashley Sorrell, Connie Park Rice, Marie Tedesco, Karen W. Tice, and Jan Voogd"--
"The essays that make up Women of the Mountain South contradict and debunk entrenched stereotypes of Appalachian women as poor and white, and they bring to life women too often neglected in the history of the region. Each focuses on a particular individual or a particular group, but taken as a whole, they illustrate the diversity of women who live in the region and the richness of their life experiences. The Mountain South has been home to Cherokee, African American, Latina, and white women, both rich and poor. Civil rights and gay rights advocates, environmental and labor activists, prostitutes, and coal miners -- all have worked, played, and loved in the place called the Mountain South and added to the fullness of its history and culture. The collection is supplemented with key documents that make the volume ideal for the classroom"--
Other form:Print version: Women of the Mountain South 9780821421505
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Tapestry of Voices; Part 1: Identity and Women of theMountain 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.

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