num_pages: 328
description: Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town.  Mining Cultures  shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy looks at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by the quintessential example of "men's work": mining. Bringing Butte to life, she adds in-depth research on church weeklies, high school yearbooks, holiday rituals, movie plots, and news of local fashion to archival material and interviews.  A richly illustrated jaunt through western history,  Mining Cultures  is the never-told chronicle of how women transformed the richest hill on earth.
language: English
title: Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
titlecomplete: Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 20
publisher: University of Illinois Press