Explores gender, labor, and resistance in western North Carolina. This study canvasses the history of the mica industry and the ways it came to be organized around women's labor. It reveals the ways women have contributed to household and regional economies for more than a century.

Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating "consumer choices" and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist connections between theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for incorporating methodological innovations, collaborative analysis, and collective activism in our scholarly projects. What are the possibilities (and challenges) that exist for feminist ethnography 25 years after...