Mining Cultures
eBook - ePub

Mining Cultures

Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mining Cultures

Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Copper Metropolis
  10. 2 Habits of Drink
  11. 3 Manners and Morals
  12. 4 Born Miners
  13. 5 Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters
  14. 6 Imagination’s Spur: Station KGIR
  15. 7 Depression Blues and New Deal Rhythms
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index