Joyce M. Barry, environmental studies lecturer, presented a paper titled "Gender, Class and Environment: Women's Grassroots Activism Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia" at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association conference. Barry's paper explored the connections between coalfield gender ideologies and the coal industry in West Virginia, arguing that prevailing gendered cultural constructions uniquely inform women's grassroots protest against the social and environmental incursions of large scale mountaintop removal coal mining operations in their communities. This annual conference was held April 3 - 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
