Women in the mining towns of the American West were strictly stereotyped into neat categories of public and private, good and bad, but the 100 intrepid female prospectors in Zanjani's book managed to (i)___ those categories. In addition to providing documentation that demolishes the all-male...
Settling in the Mining Town: An Account of Women linkedto Migrant Workers in Oranjemund, NamibiaRomie Nghitevelekwa and Martha AkawaIntroductionThesystemofmigrantlabourpracticedinNamibiawasdesignedinsuchawaythatmenwent away to work for the colonial economy in the south, while women and the rest of...
W. 1975 . Mental health in isolated new mining towns in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 9: 77–83. [Taylor & Francis Online]Sharma, S. 2010 The impact of mining on women: lessons from the coal mining Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia. Impact Assessment ...
RESEARCH ON CONTESTED GROUND: WOMEN, MINING AND HEALTH The article examines the health impacts of mining on women living in mining towns. It outlines factors that limit the likelihood of finding funding and pol... C Coumans - 《Pimatisiwin A Journal of Aboriginal & Indigenous Community Heal》...
Qualitatively different adaptation patterns were found between the two groups, which suggest that mining women are under more psychological stress than women in country towns. Mining women were less socially integrated into their community, had more fragile social networks, and were in greater need of...
However, particularly in the rural communities, Indian women have a subordinate position compare to men and have less power, autonomy status and independence. Mining intensive operations and skilled activities also tend to reduce opportunities for women in Orrisa, India; thus increasing their levels ...
In this paper, the motivations are conceptualised as factors or reasons that propel Northern women to migrate to the South to take up employment in ASM whereas the drivers are defined as the factors that push Northern women away from their villages or towns to Southern Ghana for ASM-related ...
searching for the cowboy adventures she longed for. Times were hard in the west for Pearl and she got by however she could. It is quite possible she was living in a tent outside a mining camp and “servicing” the miners when she met Joe Boot. Pearl says, “I was only 22 years ol...
At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque," they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey...
Across cities and towns, significant icons in public spaces include war memorials, sporting grounds, and prominent structures such as the new Parliament House in Canberra. Also of great importance are the "natural" icons such as Uluru, a huge sandstone monolith in Central Australia, and the Great...