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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464282203321

Autore

Bell Shannon Elizabeth

Titolo

Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / / Shannon Elizabeth Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-252-09521-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

305.40974

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Appalachian Region

Women and the environment - Appalachian Region

Human beings - Effect of environment on - Appalachian Region

Environmentalism - Appalachian Region

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- Introduction -- How can they expect me as a mother to look over that? : Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety -- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters -- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland -- You gotta go and do everything you can--fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections -- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter -- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky -- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks -- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school -- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain -- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you :



Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal -- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! : the legacy of the courageous Julia "Judy" bonds -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.