Women of the Mountain South - Identity, Work, and Activism

Informationen zum Autor Connie Park Rice is a professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University and the author of "Our Monongalia: A History of African Americans in Monongalia County! West Virginia." Marie Tedesco is the director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at East Tennessee State University and coeditor of the Ohio University Press Series in Race! Ethnicity! and Gender in Appalachia. Klappentext Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men! particularly white men. 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. Zusammenfassung Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men! particularly white men. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Connie Park (EDT)/ Tedesco Rice
• Assisted by: Connie Park Rice (Editor), Marie Tedesco (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2015
• EAN: 9780821421505
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2150-5
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia; Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories