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.
- ISBN:
- 9780252065699
- 9780252065699
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Category:
- History of the Americas
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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01-02-1997
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 328
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x41mm
- Weight:
- 0.54kg
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