Mining cultures : men, women, and leisure in Butte, 1914-41
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Mining cultures : men, women, and leisure in Butte, 1914-41
(Women in American history)
University of Illinois Press, c1997
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-268) and index
Contents of Works
- Copper metropolis
- Habits of drink
- Manners and morals
- Born miners
- Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters
- Imagination's spur : station KGIR
- Depression blues and New Deal rhythms
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780252022678
Table of Contents
Copper metropolis -- Habits of drink -- Manners and morals -- Born miners -- Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters -- Imagination's spur : station KGIR -- Depression blues and New Deal rhythms.
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780252065699
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.
Table of Contents
Copper metropolis -- Habits of drink -- Manners and morals -- Born miners -- Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters -- Imagination's spur : station K -- Depression blues and New Deal rhythms.
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