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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wilkerson, Jessica (1981-....)
Titre(s) : To live here, you have to fight [Texte imprimé] : how women led Appalachian movements for social justice / Jessica Wilkerson
Publication : Urbana : University of Illinois Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 255 pages) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : The working class in American history
Lien à la collection : The working class in American history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 245-248 and index
"When Lyndon B. Johnson declared a War on Poverty in 1964, the coalfields of the Appalachian
South was one of the frontlines: unemployment was high, development had been hampered
by the single-industry economy, and natural and man-made disasters were common. Neither
Johnson nor his policy officials could have anticipated that local women and their
outsider allies would become key figures in addressing these issues, shaping local
antipoverty programs to their needs. Informed by labor struggles of the past as well
as contemporary social justice struggles, working-class women expanded the vision
and reach of antipoverty programs as their activism continued into the 1970s and 1980s.
They led a regional welfare rights movement that organized women's health groups,
protested the harsh environmental and labor policies of the coal industry, joined
union picket lines, started community health clinics, and fought for access to jobs
previously closed to women. Wilkerson examines the intersections of gender, race,
class, social movements, and public policy in the Appalachian South. While policy
makers in the 1960s and since framed welfare policy as a state of dependency, working-class
women exposed the gendered gaps in that debate by arguing that their work as caregivers
was valuable labor. These women joined a broad coalition of black women, civil rights
activists, disabled men, and antipoverty workers, revealing how mainstream these debates
had become by the early 1970s. A study of women's lives, work, and activism in the
coalfields allows for a close examination of how class and gender intersect in capitalist
society, spotlighting in particular the unpaid caregiving and reproductive labor that
is necessary to sustain life yet is devalued--or ignored"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : How women led Appalachian movements for social justice
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Activité politique -- Appalaches (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Justice sociale -- Appalaches (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Action sociale -- Appalaches (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252042188. - ISBN 0252042182. - ISBN 9780252083907. - ISBN 0252083903. -
ISBN 9780252050923 (erroné) (epub)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb472653947
Notice n° :
FRBNF47265394
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Acknowledgements -- ; Acronyms -- ; Introduction. -- ; 1.. The political and gender
economy of the Mountain South, 1900-1964 -- ; 2.. "I was always interested in people's
welfare" : bringing the war on poverty to Kentucky -- ; 3.. "In the eyes of the poor,
the Black, the youth" : poverty politics in Appalachia -- ; 4.. March for survival
: the Appalachian welfare rights movement -- ; 5.. "The best care in history" : interdependence
and the community health movement -- ; 6.. "I'm fighting for my own children that
I'm raising up" : women, labor, and protest in Harlan County -- ; 7.. "Nothing worse
than being poor and a woman" : feminism in the Mountain South. -- ; Epilogue -- ;
Notes -- ; Bibliography -- ; Index.
