Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / / Shannon Elizabeth Bell
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Bell Shannon Elizabeth
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| Titolo: |
Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / / Shannon Elizabeth Bell
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.40974 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Political activity - Appalachian Region |
| Women and the environment - Appalachian Region | |
| Human beings - Effect of environment on - Appalachian Region | |
| Environmentalism - Appalachian Region | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Our roots run deep as ironweed |
| ISBN: | 0-252-09521-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464282203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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