Our roots run deep as ironweed: Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice

Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-212

  Bell, Shannon Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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