Into the fire : disaster and the remaking of gender /

In August 2003, one of the largest wildfires in Canadian history struck near Kelowna, British Columbia and the surrounding Okanagan Valley, causing unprecedented damage. As Shelley Pacholok observes in this innovative study, the turbulence and extreme conditions that followed in the wake of this dis...

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Autore principale: Pacholok, Shelley, 1966- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjwhv
Sommario:
  • Black Fridays
  • Methodological and Theoretical Road Map
  • Firefighting Is a Man's Game: Organizational Cultures and Practices
  • 'We Felt Like We Lost': Explaining Failure and Rescuing Masculinity
  • Navigating Hierachy and Contesting Masculinities
  • Working with the Other: Resistance, Accommodation, and Reproduction
  • Out of the Ashes.