Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre (eds) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
To those not familiar with mining, the word almost universally conjures up an image of men and boys covered with soot. It is these male workers who provide the raw materials to fuel the modern, industrialised way of life. Or so goes the stereotype until this volume, edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre, reinserts women into gender-neutral mining histories and explains the gendered effects of gender-neutral policies. The reader comes to understand the prevalence--even predominance--of women miners, mine owners and operations ...