Mining Cultures : Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 Paperback / softback
by Mary Murphy
Part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1997
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- ISBN:9780252065699
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252065699