Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement: an article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

A 1966 photograph of the Appalachian historian and activist Helen Matthews Lewis captures much about a woman who has been studying, writing about, and fighting for the people of Appalachia for three-quarters of a century. In the photo, Lewis sits outside of a mine entrance, hair emerging beneath a hard hat, with a big smile and coal-smeared cheeks. 1 It is the portrait of the scholar as coal miner, the worker as scholar, the academic as activist. The image of Lewis in the garb of a coal miner--hard hat, head lamp, and rolled up sleeves--anticipates the 1970s movement of Appalachian women into the male-dominated coal industry following Title VII legislation, while also recalling Lewis's own history as a trailblazer for women in the academy. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

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  The University of North Carolina Press

• Publish Date

  August 31, 2011 

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  9780807882795

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  The University of North Carolina Press

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  1.16 MB

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