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 |
Publication date: | 1st February 1997 |
Author: | Mary Murphy |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 328 pages |
Series: | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History |
Genres: |
History of the Americas Local history Gender studies: women and girls |