Mining Cultures

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

• Author(s): Mary Murphy,
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Pages: 328
• ISBN_10: 0252065697
  ISBN_13: 9780252065699
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Women , History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

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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.