Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia) - Softcover

Engelhardt, Elizabeth S.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821415786 ISBN 13: 9780821415788

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Women's Studies Unites With Appalachian Studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featuring the work of historians, linguists, sociologists, performance artists, literary critics, theater scholars, and others, the collection portrays the diverse cultures of Appalachian women. The chapters in Beyond Hill and Hollow examine the hidden lives of Appalachian prostitutes, urban Appalachian women in the 1800s, rural women in company towns, and an African American Appalachian poet from the 1900s. Contributors look at Appalachian opera houses, Jewish women in the coalfields, the writings of Sharyn McCrumb, and activists in out-migrant communities like Cincinnati. With an introduction by editor Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Beyond Hill and Hollow firmly establishes the field of Appalachian Women's Studies. Appropriate both as a reference and as a classroom text, Beyond Hill and Hollow expands our understanding of Appalachian women's lives. Readers, whether from the region or beyond, may recognize themselves or women they know in its pages.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt is the author of The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature (Ohio, 2003). She is an assistant professor of women's studies at West Virginia University, Morgantown.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0821415786
• ISBN 13: 9780821415788
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Engelhardt Elizabeth S. D.