{"product_id":"standing-our-ground-9780821419977","title":"Standing Our Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”\u003cbr\u003e“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStanding Our Ground\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *\u003cbr\u003e“(\u003ci\u003eStanding Our Ground\u003c\/i\u003e) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal\u003c\/i\u003e places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884709917015,"sku":"9780821419977","price":52.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821419977.jpg?v=1722533122","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/standing-our-ground-9780821419977","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}