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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(1861 - 1947)
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 Format: Paperback, 213 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801483891
Release Date: Jan 8, 1990
| |  | | | In Brief
In 1983, "mineworkers in the copper towns of Clifton, Morenci, Ajo andDouglas, Arizona, went on strike against the Phelps Dodge Corporation. . . . When {the company} obtained a court injunction barring five individually namedmale miners and two hundred other 'John Does' from assembling at the plant gates, the women of the community took the men's place on the picket line. . . .{The book} tells the story of these women miners and supporters: their cominginto consciousness, their initial mobilization, their development of leadership skills, their outreach efforts, their increasing radicalization, and the impact their changing roles in the community had on their roles at home." (Women's Rev Books) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver began her writing career with Holding the Line. It is the story of how women's lives were transformed by an eighteen-month strike against the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, the story is partly oral history and partly social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. For this new edition, Kingsolver has revised the first chapter and written a new introduction, which explains the book's particular importance. "Holding the Line was a watershed event for me because it taught me to pay attention: to know the place where I lived. Since then I've written other books, most of them set in the vine-scented, dusty climate of Southwestern class struggle.... My hope for you, as a person now holding this book, is that the reading will bring you some of what the writing brought to me. Whether or not you can claim any interest in a gritty little town smack in the middle of nowhere that hosted a long-ago mine strike, I hope in the end you will care about its courage and sagacity."
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