Women Of The Mountain South

Author : Connie Park Rice,Marie Tedesco
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821445228

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Women of the Mountain South by Connie Park Rice,Marie Tedesco Pdf

Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused 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 backgrounds of those who call the mountains home. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region. Each author focuses on a particular individual or group, but together they illustrate the diversity of women who live in the region and the depth of their life experiences. The Mountain South has been home to Native American, 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 lived in the place called the Mountain South and enriched its history and culture.

Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521886192

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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South by Wilma A. Dunaway Pdf

The nature of female labor in the antebellum Appalachian South was shaped by race, ethnicity, and/or class positions.

Author : Dale A. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781435739925

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Fire on the Mountain by Dale A. Johnson Pdf

Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.

Author : Sharyn Munro
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458757135

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The Woman on the Mountain by Sharyn Munro Pdf

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Author : Liam Clancy
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385505345

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The Mountain of the Women by Liam Clancy Pdf

In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s. Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and Are You Somebody?, Liam Clancy relates his life’s story in a raucously funny and star-studded account of moving from provincial Ireland to the bars and clubs of New York City, to the cusp of fame as a member of Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers. Born in 1935, the eleventh out of as many children, young Liam was a naive and innocent lad of the Old Country. His memories of childhood include bounding over hills, streams, and the occasional mountain, getting lost, and eventually found, and making mischief in the way of a typical Irish boy. As an aimless nineteen-year-old, Clancy met a strange and wonderfully energetic lover of music, Ms. Diane Guggenheim, an American heiress. She and a colleague from America had set out to record regional Irish folk music, and their undertaking led them to Carrick-on-Suir in the shadow of Slievenamon, "The Mountain of the Women," where Mammie Clancy had been known to carry a tune or two in her kitchen. Guggenheim fell for young Liam and swept him along on her travels through the British Isles, the American Appalachians, and finally Greenwich Village, the undisputed Mecca for aspiring artists of every ilk in the late 1950s. Clancy was in New York to become an actor. But on the side, he played and sang with his brothers, Paddy and Tom, and fellow countryman Tommy Makem, in pubs like the legendary White Horse Tavern. In the heady atmosphere of the Village, Clancy’s life was a party filled with music, sex, and McSorley’s. His friendships with then-unknown artists such as Bob Dylan, Maya Angelou, Robert Redford, Lenny Bruce, Pete Seeger and Barbra Streisand form the backdrop of the charming adventures of a small-town boy making it big in the biggest of cities. In music circles, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem are known as the Beatles of Irish music. The band’s music continues to play on jukeboxes in pubs and bars, in living rooms of folk music fans, and in Irish American homes throughout the country. Liam Clancy’s lively memoir captures their wild adventures on the road to fame and fortune, and brings to life a man who never lets himself off the hook for his sins, and happily views his success as a blessing.

Author : Jane Treat,Nancy Geha
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452577135

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Women and Middlehood Halfway Up the Mountain by Jane Treat,Nancy Geha Pdf

Middlehood women share insights, stories, wisdom, and creative ideas for navigating this rich time of change with courage, laughter, and love.

Author : Mary Beth Pudup,Dwight B. Billings,Altina Laura Waller
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0807845345

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Appalachia in the Making by Mary Beth Pudup,Dwight B. Billings,Altina Laura Waller Pdf

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pikes Peak Library District
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Rocky Mountains Region
ISBN : 9781567352771

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Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West by Anonim Pdf

Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape.

Author : Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : OCLC:53249155

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A Mountain Woman by Elia Wilkinson Peattie Pdf

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039145169

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Rural Poverty in the United States by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Author : United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Women
ISBN : WISC:89072855919

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Handbook on Women Workers by United States. Women's Bureau Pdf

Author : Suzanne E. Tallichet
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271045184

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Daughters of the Mountain by Suzanne E. Tallichet Pdf

Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. Tallichet's work goes beyond anecdotal evidence to provide complex and penetrating analyses of qualitative data. Based on in-depth interviews with female miners, Tallichet explores several key topics, including social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation. She also explores the ways in which women adapt to mining culture, developing strategies for both resistance and accommodation to an overwhelmingly male-dominated world.

Author : Jennifer Jordan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061753527

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Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan Pdf

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit, Jennifer Jordan shares the tragic, compelling, inspiring, and extraordinary true stories of a handful of courageous women -- mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, poets and engineers -- who defeated this formidable mountain yet ultimately perished in pursuit of their dreams.

Author : Bob Thompson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307720894

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Born on a Mountaintop by Bob Thompson Pdf

Traces the author's visits to key areas in the life of Davy Crockett, including the legendary frontiersman's Tennessee River Valley home and the Alamo site in Texas, exploring Crockett's true life and enduring cultural influence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : MINN:31951D00304221Y

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Trends in Pensions by Anonim Pdf