Beyond Hill & Hollow: Original Readings In Appalachian Womens Studies

278 Pages·2005·1.93 MB·English

by  Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt

beyond hill and hollow
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES
IN ETHNICITY AND GENDER
IN APPALACHIA
Series Editor:Lynda Ann Ewen
Memphis Tennessee Garrison:The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman,
edited by Ancella R.Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen
The Tangled Roots of Feminism,Environmentalism,and Appalachian
Literature,by Elizabeth S.D.Engelhardt
Red,White,Black,and Blue:A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia,
by William M.Drennen Jr.and Kojo (William T.) Jones Jr.,
edited by Dolores M.Johnson
Beyond Hill and Hollow:Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies,
edited by Elizabeth S.D.Engelhardt
beyond hill and hollow
O R I G I N A L R E A D I N G S
I N A P PA L AC H I A N
WO M E N ’ S S T U D I E S
Edited by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
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contents
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
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.Creating Appalachian Women’s Studies:
Dancing Away from Granny and Elly May

Elizabeth S.D.Engelhardt
Voices of Activism
 fi  
.Jewish Women in the Central Appalachian Coal elds, – :
From Breadwinners to Community Builders

Deborah R.Weiner

.Bringing My People Along:Urban Appalachian Women
as Community Builders

Nola Hadley Torres
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.Lighting the Fuse:Wilma Dykeman and Sharyn McCrumb
as Appalachian “Activists”

Nancy K.Jentsch and Danny L.Miller
Voices of Class

.Urban Wage-Earning Women in a Rural State

Barbara J.Howe
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.Women and Appalachian Opera Houses:A Place in the Public Domain

Lindsay B.Cummings
vii

.Appalachian Women and Poverty:Work
in the Underground Economy

CeliaWilliamson
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.Stand by Your Man:Gender and Class Formation
fi
in the Harlan County Coal elds
ff 
Betty Parker Du
Voices of Place
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.Appalachian Women and Language:Old and New Forms
fl
as Re ections of a Changing Image

Beverly Olson Flanigan

.From Every Mountainside,Let Freedom Ring:
A Transnational Feminist Journey through the Experiences
ofWest Virginian and Bolivian Mountain Women

Moira P.Shaw
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.E e Waller Smith:An Echo within the Hills

David Deskins

.Telling the Untold Stories

June Langford Berkley
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Contributors
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Index
viii 
series editor’s preface
A series of annual conferences,The Women of Appalachia,held at the Ohio

University campus in Zanesville since has successfully brought to-
gether women scholars and nonacademic women to share their research,
their insights,and their experiences.This exchange has been exciting and
intellectually fruitful.Elizabeth Engelhardt has selected this cross-section
of material,from academic writing to storytelling,journaling,and mem-
oir,to illustrate her argument that Appalachian women’s studies must be
ff
qualitatively di erent and intellectually broader than “traditional”Appala-
chian scholarship.Her essay opening this book challenges the reader to con-
sider restructuring how we think about women in Appalachia—in every
class stratum,ethnicity group,and age.
The Ohio University Press Series in Ethnicity and Gender in Appala-
chia is committed to publishing voices that traditionally have not been heard:
those who experience life in Appalachia as social workers,hospice volun-
teers,teachers,or neighborhood organizers.Beyond Hill and Hollow:Original
Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies bears witness to both the diversity
and the community of these underrepresented voices.
Lynda Ann Ewen,Series Editor
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