Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism (Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia)

by Marie Tedesco (Author), Connie Park Rice (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2015

  $39.97

  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.