Our roots run deep as ironweed: Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice

Acknowledgments

List of figures

Introduction

How can they expect me as a mother to look over that? : Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety

We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters

Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland

You gotta go and do everything you can

fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections

It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter

I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky

I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks

Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school

It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain

Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal

I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! : the legacy of the courageous Julia "Judy" bonds

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.