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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice

Title
Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / Shannon Elizabeth Bell.
Author
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

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Description
xii, 210 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-202) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 14-928
ISBN
  • 9780252037955 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0252037952 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780252079467 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252079469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780252095214 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013017243
  • 40022949421
OCLC
843025831
Author
Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, author.
Title
Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / Shannon Elizabeth Bell.
Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-202) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40022949421
Research Call Number
JFE 14-928
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