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ERIC Number: EJ608638
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-8756-0534
Getting Above Our Raising: A Case Study of Women from the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.
O'Quinn, Mary Darcy
Journal of Research in Rural Education, v15 n3 p181-89 Win 1999
Interviews with 41 women from the coalfields of southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky indicate that traditional women devoted their lives to their families. Contemporary women who did not attend college identified with their mothers but wanted financial independence. Contemporary women who attended college identified with their fathers but experienced alienation. Describes an intervention program to empower poor Appalachian women in transition. (TD)
Descriptors: Alienation, Empowerment, Family Influence, Family Relationship, Females, Higher Education, Interviews, Qualitative Research, Role Conflict, Rural Women, Self Concept, Stereotypes, Womens Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Appalachia; Cross Generational Studies; Kentucky (East); Virginia (Southwest)