Both negative and overly positive stereotyped images of Appalachians betray reality. This series addresses the need to give greater voice and study to those who have been ignored or caricatured. In the past, Appalachians who are not of Celtic origin have been dismissed as not being genuine; likewise the role of men has been emphasized without exploring the full dimensions of gender. The series seeks scholarship related to these areas and encourages scholars to research areas previously overlooked.
Marie Tedesco, Series Editor
East Tennessee State University
Chris Green, Series Editor
Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Series Editor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
By Jeff Mann
Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of greater freedom. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and sexual identities.
Memoir, LGBT · Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places · Gender Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · Creative Nonfiction
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
By Otis Trotter
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Introduction by Joe William Trotter Jr.
Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during the second Great Migration.
Memoir · Biography, African American · African American Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Political Science | Civil Rights · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
Women of the Mountain South
Identity, Work, and Activism
Edited by Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco
Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region.
Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional · Appalachia
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
By Joyce M. Barry
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.The
Social Science | Regional Studies · Women’s Studies · Environmental Policy · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature
By Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, wove discussions of women’s rights, racial tension, and cultural difference into her Appalachian poetry.
American Literature · Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Gender Studies · Ohio and Regional · Literature · Appalachia
Once I Too Had Wings
The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
By Emma Bell Miles
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Edited by Steven Cox
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Foreword by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Previously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals of Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) contain poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman’s perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century.
Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · Women Authors · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
By Linda Spatig and Layne Amerikaner
Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering “boxes” girls and women are so often expected to live in.
Women’s Studies · Anthropology · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
By Sarah Beth Childers
In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.
Memoir · Creative Nonfiction · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas · Literature · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
By Joyce M. Barry
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.The
Social Science | Regional Studies · Women’s Studies · Environmental Policy · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment
Appalachian Women’s Literacies
By Erica Abrams Locklear
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.
Literary Criticism, US · Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · Literary Criticism, Women
Out of the Mountains
Appalachian Stories
By Meredith Sue Willis
Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.Willis’s
Short Stories (single author) · American Literature · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Women Authors
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
By Linda Tate
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.
Memoir · Women Authors · Appalachia · Creative Nonfiction · Ohio and Regional
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
By Jeff Mann
Loving Mountains, Loving Men is the first book-length treatment of a topic rarely discussed or examined: gay life in Appalachia. Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas. Jeff Mann tells the story of one who left and then returned, who insists on claiming and celebrating both regional and erotic identities.
Memoir, LGBT · Social Science | Regional Studies · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Literature
Beyond Hill and Hollow
Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
Edited by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Women’s studies unites with Appalachian studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia’s women. Featuring the work of historians, linguists, sociologists, performance artists, literary critics, theater scholars, and others, the collection portrays the diverse cultures of Appalachian women.The
Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Literary Criticism, Women · Women’s History · Appalachia · Literature · Ohio and Regional
Red, White, Black, and Blue
A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia
By William M. Drennen Jr. and Kojo (William T.) Jones Jr.
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Edited by Dolores Johnson
A groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.
Memoir · African American Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Gender Studies · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Creative Nonfiction · Literature · Appalachia
The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature
By Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, wove discussions of women’s rights, racial tension, and cultural difference into her Appalachian poetry.
American Literature · Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Gender Studies · Ohio and Regional · Literature · Appalachia
