Our Roots Run Deep As Ironweed
Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 16 October 2013
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252079467
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9780252037955
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 black and white photographs 0
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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 and personal transformations catalyzed through activism. Bell supplements each narrative with careful notes that aid the reader while amplifying the power and flow of the activists' stories. Bell's analysis outlines the relationship between Appalachian women's activism and the gendered responsibilities they feel within their families and communities. Ultimately, Bell argues that these women draw upon a broader ""protector identity"" that both encompasses and extends the identity of motherhood that has often been associated with grassroots women's activism. As protectors, the women challenge dominant Appalachian gender expectations and guard not only their families but also their homeplaces, their communities, their heritage, and the endangered mountains that surround them.
30% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to organizations fighting for environmental justice in Central Appalachia.
