Our Roots Run Deep As Ironweed - 9780252079467

Our Roots Run Deep As IronweedAppalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice\nAuthor(s): Shannon Elizabeth Bell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252079467, 978-0252079467\nSynopsis\nMotivated 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.\n\nEach 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 pers.