The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives - Softcover

Fields, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065654 ISBN 13: 9780252065651

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1996

Synopsis

"Truly remarkable portraits
        of courage." -- John van Amerongen, editor, Alaska Fisherman's
        Journal
      "These little-known tales
        of women working in Alaska's commercial fishing industry make for great
        reading. . . . Readers will be amazed by their stories." -- Laine
        Welch, Alaska Fish Radio
      "A richly textured story,
        a multi-genre text that invites readers to witness women's conversation
        with America's last frontier, Alaska." -- Patricia Foster, University
        of Iowa
      Why do women choose an occupation
        that has been ranked the most dangerous in the nation? What do women give
        up--and get in return--when they take on the tasks of fishermen? The
        Entangling Net explores these issues through the stories of twenty
        women who have chosen to work in this extremely risky, male-dominated
        profession.
      Leslie Leyland Fields lyrically
        weaves their stories with her own experiences as a fishing woman. She
        tells of long, exhausting days in skiffs, catching fish in brutally cold
        weather on waters that are often violent. Her words and those of the women
        she interviews convey the paradoxical relationship the women have with
        commercial fishing: they face extraordinarily difficult working conditions
        made more difficult and dangerous by male crews and skippers who don't
        welcome women, yet they feel impelled by the challenge of the work to
        return to their jobs season after season.

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From the Back Cover

Why do women choose an occupation that has been ranked the most dangerous in the nation? What do women give up-and get in return- when they take on the tasks of fisherman? The Entangling Net explores these issues through the stories of twenty women who have chosen to work in this extremely risky, male-dominated profession.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252065654
• ISBN 13: 9780252065651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192