Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
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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Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
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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Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

by Mary Murphy
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

by Mary Murphy

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252065699
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 02/01/1997
Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Mary Murphy is a professor of American women's history at Montana State University.
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