Mining women
Subtitle: gender in the development of a global industry, 1670-2005
By: edited by Jaclyn J. Gier and Laurie Mercier
Edition: 1st Palgrave Macmillan paperback editiion.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780230621046
Subjects: Women miners; History; Mineral industries; Mineuses (Personnes); Histoire; Mines; Industrie; Bergbau; Frau
Description: "Mining Women "presents eighteen new essays that illuminate how gender identities and inequality have been constructed historically and sustained in what could be hailed as the first truly global enterprise and arguably the most "masculine" of industries--mining. These essays explore gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world and from multiple perspectives. They investigate not only gender's role in the domestic and cultural aspects of mining communities, but also its impact on the emerging industrial and capitalist system from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Each essay is important for understanding the ways in which gender is imagined, lived, inscribed, and contested in specific historical and material contexts. As a whole, the volume reveals that despite the tremendous variation between industries, cultures, and national experiences, women have challenged the constraints of gender definitions on their lives and work. -- Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. The indigenous, colonial, and imperial legacy. 1. Mining women, royal slaves : copper mining in colonial Cuba, 1670-1780 / María Elena Díaz; title: - 2. Making a difference in colonial interventionism in gold mining in Wassa Fiase, Gold Coast (Ghana) : the activism of two women, 1874-1893 / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry; title: - 3. Lifting the layers of the mountain's petticoats : mining and gender in Potosí's Pachamama / Pascale Absi; title: - 4. Kamins building the empire : class, caste, and gender interface in Indian collieries / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt; title: Part II. Engendering Bodies and the Masculinization of the Mining Industry: Separate Spheres and the Role of Women in Mining, the Mining Household, and Community, 1800-1940. 5. Sociability, solidarity, and social exclusion : women's activism in the South Wales coalfield, ca. 1830-1939 / Rosemary Jones; title: - 6. Gender relations in iron mining communities in Sweden, 1900-1940 / Eva Blomberg; title: - 7. Invisible labor : a comparative oral history of women in coal mining communities of Hokkaido, Japan, and Montana, USA, 1890-1940 / Kayoko Yoshida and Reiko Miyauchi; title: - 8. Coal mining women speak out : economic change and women miners of Chikuho, Japan / Sachiko Sone; title: Part III. Gender, Mining Communities, and Labor Protests. 9. "I'm not a Johnny Mitchell man" : gender and labor protest in the Pennsylvania hard coal uprising, 1900-1902 / Bonnie Stepenoff; title: - 10. Violence and the Colorado National Guard : masculinity, race, class, and identity in the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado coal strike / Anthony DeStefanis; title: - 11. "I hate to be calling her a wife now" : women and men in the Salt of the earth strike, 1950-1952 / Ellen Baker; title: - 12. Godless communists and faithful wives, gender relations and the Cold War : Mine mill and the 1958 strike against the International Nickel Company / Mercedes Steedman; title: Part IV. The Division of Mining Labor Revisited: State Cultures of Solidarity, Deindustrialization, and the Globalized Economy, 1945-2005.13. Just a housewife? Miners' wives between household and work in postwar Germany / Yong-Sook Jung; title: - 14. Women into mining jobs at Inco : challenging the gender division of labor / Jennifer Keck and Mary Powell; title: - 15. From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity : women, men, and cultures of solidarity in U.S. coal communities, 1912-1990 / Camille Guerin-Gonzalez; title: Epilogue : Mining women find a voice : working class and environmental feminism in the twenty-first century / Jaclyn J. Gier.