Notes
1. ‘Strike a woman and you strike a rock’: A battle cry of the fight against apartheid in South Africa.
2. All these males had mothers who presumably shared caring characteristics with their sisters in Appalachia. When do mothers lose influence over their sons? This is a question that is particularly apposite in South Africa where the crime wave is attributable to male juveniles often under the influence of their peers in criminal gangs. Fathers are often absent from these households.
3. It is not clear what is meant as there is no reference in the index to ‘working – class’. Their protests take up a lot of time. Some of the women are now stay – at – home, mothers or grandmothers and some appear to be owners of land some of it inherited, hence their attachment to the land, which would seem to gainsay such an appellation. It cannot be the juxtaposition to the ‘idle rich’ since one has the impression that Americans in general are hard working and hence ‘working – class’.