Gender, culture and northern fisheries / Joanna Kafarowski, editor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kafarowski, Joanna, 1962- editor.

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Occasional publication series (Canadian Circumpolar Institute) ; no. 62.

Occasional publications series ; no. 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in fisheries--Canada, Northern--Case studies.

Women in fisheries.

Women in fisheries--Europe, Northern--Case studies.

Fisheries--Canada, Northern--Case studies.

Fisheries.

Fisheries--Europe, Northern--Case studies.

Northern Canada.

Northern Europe.

Genre:

Case studies

Case studies.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7548)

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : CCI Press, 2009

Summary:

"Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as providing important occupational and economic diversification in small and often remote communities. In such locations, the high cost and often low nutritional value of imported foods can be offset by fishing, hunting and gathering activities that contribute significantly to peoples' socio-economic circumstances and health. In some societies, fishing is regarded as womens' work, but in far more cases it is considered to be mens' work. The conventional recognition of the primary role of men in fish harvesting often results in mens' knowledge being the principal (or only) source of important local knowledge considered by fisheries' managers and decision-makers. The resulting under-representation of womens' knowledge may compromise the quality of management decision-making, suggesting the desirability of including knowledge obtained by women more especially during the processing and food preparation phases of product use. This book provides the reader with a current accounting of the generally under-recognized role of women in a variety of northern subsistence and industrial fisheries, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, rural - and urban-based, in Alaska, Arctic Canada, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors draw attention to the need for a more critical understanding of the emphasis often placed on hunting and associated male dominance in food production in northern societies, arguing that fishing as an activity may be much more ambiguous and nuanced than previously considered, and increasingly so as modernization further alters customary social roles and attitudes."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Section 1. Gendered participation in subsistence and commercial activities

Chercher les poissons: gender roles in a Aleut Indigenous commercial economy [Native or Aboriginal peoples] / Katherine Reedy-Maschner

"Without fish we would no longer exist": the changing role of women in Southeast Alaska's subsistence salmon harvest [Alaska] / Virginia Mulle and Sine Anahita

"It used to be women's work": gender and subsistence fishing on the Hudson Bay coast [Hudson's Bay] / Martina Tyrrell

Are living fish better than dead fillets? The invisibility and power of Icelandic women in aquaculture and the fishery economy [Iceland] / Anna Karlsdóttir

Everyone goes fishing: gender and procurement in the Canadian Arctic / Kerrie-Ann Shannon

Gender, knowledge, and environmental change related to humpback whitefish in interior Alaska / Melissa Robinson, Phyllis Morrow and Darlene Northway.

Section 2. Governance practices

"I have always wanted to go fishing": challenging gender and gender perceptions in the quota-oriented small-scale fishery of Finnmark, Norway / Siri Gerrard

"It's our land too": Inuit women's involvement and representation in Arctic fisheries in Canada / Joanna Kafarowski

Gender equality and governance in Arctic Swedish fisheries and reindeer herding [Sweden] / Maria Úden

Beyond the pale: locating sea Sami women outside the official fisheries discourse in northern Norway / Elina Helander-renvall

Women in Sámi fisheries in Norway: positions and policies [Saami] / Elisabeth Angell

Gender, human security and northern fisheries / Gunhild Hoogensen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7548: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription signed by editor on title page: July 16, 2022. To Caroline, In appreciation for all you do to collect and document the lives of women adventurers. All the best, Joanna Kafarowski

ISBN:

9781896445465

1896445462

OCLC:

455790918