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Unreasonable Woman

Diane Wilson
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When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in ...

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When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

Informations sur le produit

Titre:
Unreasonable Woman
Sous-titre :
A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
Auteur:
Diane Wilson
EAN:
9781603580410
Format:
eBook (epub)
Producteur:
Chelsea Green Publishing
Genre:
Nature et société: généralités, ouvrages de référence
Parution:
15.09.2005
Protection contre la copie numérique:
Adobe DRM
Nombre de pages:
400

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