Mining Cultures: Gender, Work, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

by Mary Murphy, Mary Murphy, Jane Wong, et al.

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065697
• ISBN13: 9780252065699
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"