This collection of six papers produced by the WoMin alliance focuses on the environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial mining to working class, poor and peasant women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The papers deal with the realities of sex work associated with the mining industry, sexual and reproductive health rights of the women working in mines and in proximity to mining areas, migration issues, the toxic masculinities witnessed within mining communities and the violence which women in these spaces often endure. This collection serves as a reminder of the myriad of problems that extractivist projects bring with them and specifically the gendered nature of these issues, which our movements must constantly analyze and work to dismantle.
