| Mining Cultures: Gender, Work, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 Contributor(s): Murphy, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252065697 ISBN-13: 9780252065699 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1997 Annotation: There are many voices telling many stories in this book. Immigrant miners, housewives, flappers, clubwomen, prostitutes, bootleggers, boxers, and newsboys all have their say... This is a tale full of the ironies and contradictions of life in Butte, of stories that helped people to persevere, flourish, and maintain a remarkable allegiance to a precarious community. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Women |
| Dewey: 978.668 |
| LCCN: 96-9990 |
| Series: Women in American History |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (1.05 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |