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Into the fire disaster and the remaking of gender / Shelley Pacholok.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.; (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013).Description: 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442666849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV553 .I586 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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 disaster destabilized an important area of social life - that of gender relations.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 disaster destabilized an important area of social life - that of gender relations.

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