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May 06, 2014 | ISBN 9780804173698 Buy
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May 06, 2014 | ISBN 9780804173698
“This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.” First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of nineteen women in twentieth-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day struggles for survival to the personal triumphs of their hardscrabble existence. They are wives, widows, and daughters of coal miners; factory hands, tobacco graders, cotton mill workers, and farmers; and women who value honest labor, self-esteem, and dignity. Shining a much-needed light into a misunderstood culture and identity, the stories within reflect the universally human struggle to live meaningful and dignified lives.Updated with a new introduction and material from the author.
Skye Kathleen Moody (aka Kathy Kahn) is the author of eleven books, three nonfiction, and eight novels. Moody’s nonfiction books and photographic essays cover social justice and environmental issues, primarily in China, Russia, Central Asia, Siberia, East Africa, and the… More about Skye Moody
“[This book is] as powerful and direct as a bulldozer. [Moody] just turned on the tape recorder and let them talk—these brave, enduring hillbilly women, the daughters and wives and widows of the dirt poor, sometimes unemployed, sometimes maimed and disabled miners from Harlan County, Kentucky, and Tennessee and West Virginia. . . . Resistance is the overriding theme here—that tough, tenacious instinct to survive with their pride and anger intact.”—Kirkus Reviews
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