Into the Fire : : Disaster and the Remaking of Gender / / Shelley Pacholok.

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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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2013
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Black Fridays
  • 2. Methodological and Theoretical Road Map
  • 3. Firefighting Is a Man's Game: Organizational Cultures and Practices
  • 4. 'We Felt Like We Lost': Explaining Failure and Rescuing Masculinity
  • 5. Navigating Hierarchy and Contesting Masculinities
  • 6. Working with the Other: Resistance, Accommodation, and Reproduction
  • 7. Out of the Ashes
  • Appendix: Dilemmas, Tensions, and Contradictions in Feminist-Inspired Research
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index