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Article: Feminist Studies Award winner.(announcements)(Rebecca Scott )(Brief article)
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Rebecca Scott is the winner of the 2006 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "Dependent Masculinity and Political Culture in Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse," which will be published in the Fall 2007 issue of Feminist Studies. The article focuses on how American political culture is expressed in identity formations, in particular, white working-class masculinity, and how this identity formation influences the environmental politics of mountaintop removal coal mining in southern West Virginia. Scott explores the ways in which white working-class masculinity is dependent on a labor market segmented by gender and race and examines the support of some coalfield residents ...