Gender Relations in the Mines of Labor Underground

An article written by Suzanne E. Tallichet and published in the December 1995 issue of Gender & Society, pages 697-711

The Underground Proving Ground: Women and Men in an Appalachian Coal Mine

A report submitted by Suzanne E. Tallichet to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1996 on women\u27s integration into underground coal mining in Appalachia

Moving Up Down in the Mine: The Preservation of Male Privilege Underground

A report submitted by Suzanne E. Tallechet to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 1995 on the integration of women into the underground coal mining workforce

Narrative, Post-Modern, and Feminist Theory

A paper presented by Suzanne E. Tallichet at the 1995 Rural Sociological Society on feminist theory and postmodernism

Empowering Rural Sociology: Exploring and Linking Alternative Paradigms in Theory and Methodology

An article written in part by Suzanne E. Tallichet and published in the 1995 issue of Rural Sociology, pages 585-606

Exploring the Link Between Recurrent Acts of Childhood and Adolescent Animal Cruelty and Violent Crime

Studies demonstrating the potential link between childhood and adolescent acts of animal cruelty and later interpersonal violence toward humans remain ambiguous. Unfortunately, most of the research examining this possible link has failed to investigate repeated acts of animal cruelty or recurrent acts of violence toward humans. Using a sample of 261 inmates surveyed at medium and maximum security prisons in a southern state, this article examines how demographic attributes, childhood and adolescent characteristics, and repeated acts of cruelty toward animals impacted recurrent acts of interpersonal violence during adulthood. Respondents who had more siblings and who had committed repeated acts of animal cruelty were more likely to have engaged in recurrent acts of interpersonal violence, showing a possible link between recurrent acts of childhood and adolescent animal cruelty and subsequent violent crime

Gendered Relations in the Mines and the Division of Labour Underground

This article focuses on how men\u27s sexualization of work relations and the workplace contributes to job-level gender segregation among coal miners. The findings suggest that sexualization represents men\u27s power to stigmatize women in order to sustain stereotypes about them as inferior workers. In particular, supervisors use stereotypes to justify women\u27s assignments to jobs in support of and in service to men. Once in these jobs, men\u27s positive evaluations of women workers become contingent upon their fulfillment of men \u27s gendered expectations. These processes foster the gender typing of jobs and lead to the gendered division of labor underground

Recurrent Childhood Animal Cruelty: Is There a Relationship to Adult Recurrent Interpersonal Violence?

Recent studies have begun to establish an association between childhood acts of animal cruelty and later violence against humans. Even so, research has failed to establish a strong correlation between the two, perhaps because previous studies have failed to examine the commission of violence against animals and humans in terms of their frequencies. In a replication of Tallichet and Hensley (2004) and based on survey data from 180 inmates at a medium- and maximum-security prison in a Southern state, the present study examines the relationship between the demographic characteristics of race, level of education, the residential location of an offender’s formative years, and recurrent acts of childhood cruelty and their impact on later repeated acts of interpersonal violence. Only repeated acts of animal cruelty during childhood was predictive of later recurrent acts of violence toward humans, showing a possible relationship between the two

The Line Stops Here! Telling Our Stories and Uniting Our Struggles Against Fracked Gas and Byproducts Pipelines in the Appalachia Region

With the coal industry in decline and the production of fracked gas on the rise, those wishing to be the earth\u27s advocates and protectors have gone on the offensive seeking to curb new pipeline construction and the repurposing of old ones. This group of roundtable presenters features a broad representation of grass-roots activists acting to stop the spread of gas pipelines and the repurposing of them for the transport of the more explosive fracked byproducts in several neighboring Appalachian states. The presenters will include Appalachian activists from Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia who will share their successes, setbacks and strategies in seeking to obstruct if not halt the gas industry\u27s recent and recently proposed pipeline projects. The four presenters will share information about the projects, both under construction or proposed, they are seeking to obstruct or halt and their experiences with educating other citizens along with local and state officials in order to connect and support further citizen action against the spread of fracked materials through these four Appalachian states and beyond. Discourse in the form of stories about audience\u27s experiences will also be encouraged

Love me, love my dog: Cohabitation, dogs and romantic relationships among college students

Abstract This research focused on the impact of having one or more dogs on romantic relationships among college-age cohabiting couples. One hundred and eighteen romantic cohabitants, among whom either or both partners had a dog, from three universities completed an anonymous, voluntary 41-item survey. Quantitative data included the bulk of the items analyzed using Version 25 of the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. Qualitative data were generated using three open-ended questions and analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Over three-fourths (77%) of the respondents reported a positive effect, 17% reported a neutral impact, and 6% reported a negative outcome. The positive effects included “companionship” (97%), “relationship enhancer” (88%), and “like having a child together” (76%). Negative outcomes included jealousy, less time spent together, and stress. Men were significantly more likely to report that their partner was jealous of the dog, while women were significantly more likely to talk to their dogs about problems. Whites, more than racial-ethnic minorities, typically reported a more positive than negative effect of dogs on their romantic relationships. The study emphasizes the positive impact of a dog(s) on the romantic relationship of cohabiting couples and reveals some of the negative impacts of living with one or more dogs on young cohabitating couples’ relationships. The findings provide relatively new insights into the influence of gender and race-ethnicity on dogs and cohabiting couples and suggest areas for further research