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Motherhood and Environmental Justice in Appalachia: A Critical Analysis of Resistance, Care, and Essentialism in Our Mountains

Thompson, Lucy Frances
http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2961-6739
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682608025241361

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2023, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, Geography.
In the face of past, present, and future environmental injustice in central Appalachia, mothers have been on the front lines of resistance to extractive industry. Scholars have acknowledged this pattern, yet no substantive research on why motherhood is invoked so often as a discursive tool has been completed. This thesis examines the factors which have led central Appalachian women activists to use motherhood in their activism and analyze the discourse's strengths and weaknesses.
Anna Rachel Terman (Advisor)
117 p.
Environmental Justice; Environmental Studies; Geography; Regional Studies; Womens Studies
Appalachia; Women; Environmental Justice; Activism; Motherhood; Mothers; Care Work; Ecofeminism; Maternalism; Mountaintop Removal; Mountain Valley Pipeline; Water Stewards; Gender;

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  • Thompson, L. F. (2023). Motherhood and Environmental Justice in Appalachia: A Critical Analysis of Resistance, Care, and Essentialism in Our Mountains [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682608025241361

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Thompson, Lucy. Motherhood and Environmental Justice in Appalachia: A Critical Analysis of Resistance, Care, and Essentialism in Our Mountains. 2023. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682608025241361.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Thompson, Lucy. "Motherhood and Environmental Justice in Appalachia: A Critical Analysis of Resistance, Care, and Essentialism in Our Mountains." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682608025241361

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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