Into the Fire: Disaster and the Remaking of Gender by Shelley Pacholok
By Shelley Pacholok
In August 2003, one of many biggest wildfires in Canadian historical past struck close to Kelowna, British Columbia and the encircling Okanagan Valley, inflicting extraordinary harm. As Shelley Pacholok observes during this cutting edge learn, the turbulence and severe stipulations that within the wake of this catastrophe destabilized a tremendous sector of social existence – that of gender relations.
Into the Fire combines insights from gender reports and catastrophe stories to discover the level to which notions of “masculinity” and “femininity” are challenged within the wake of crises. Pacholok makes a speciality of how gender kin have been at the same time sustained and disrupted among those that fought the fire, drawing on media representations in addition to interviews with firefighters . Into the Fire illuminates how failures can function catalysts for brand spanking new styles of gender, even in hugely masculine spaces.
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