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"A fascinating and important study of the women of the Mica industry in Western North Carolina. It begins with an impressive run-down of the context for the industry, then gets into some concrete life histories and ends with a section putting it all in the context of academic anthropology." -- George Brosi, Appalachian HeritageADVANCE PRAISE"There is no comparable work on the mica industry in Appalachian studies. . . . Anglin breaks new ground in exploring how gender, kinship, and social class interact to specify women's political experience, action, and consciousness." -- Stephen Lynn Fisher, editor of Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change"Unlike other Appalachian ethnographies, Anglin's book focuses on an industry rather than a community and closely follows the lives of specific individuals, rather than creating global characterizations of lifeways." -- Jane H. Adams, author of The Transformation of Rural Life:Southern Illinois, 1890-1990… (more)