Fanning the Flames?. Negotiating Gendered Identity in Forest Fire...
Stephanie Ross
This study, an examination of gendered identity in a regional Canadian community, explores the ways in which female forest firefighters negotiate ‘competent’ identities in the face of formal and informal workplace barriers. Drawing on literature that focuses on gendered subjectivity, spatial environments, sociology of the body, and women in non-traditional work, I examine how varied workplace settings and the social interactions that take place within them shape women’s gendered subjectivity. In contrast to the existing literature on forest fire suppression, the majority of which focuses on male firefighters, this study explores the daily experiences of female firefighters at the District Fire Center and out on the fire line. I...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-7084-2
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Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011