Rereading Man’s Conquest of Nature: Skill, Myths, and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries  

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Quam-Wickham, Nancy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 2 no. 2 (Oct. 1999), page 135-151.
Topik: manliness; skill; work culture; mining; oil; lumbering; folklore; occupational language; Paul Bunyan
Fulltext: 135MMS22.pdf (61.94KB)

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Writers, folklorists, historians, and others have long highlighted the gendered heritage of the American West, a region that one popular scribe has called the “He-Man Land.” Male workers in theWest’s extractive industries participated in the construction of these masculine ideals, but did so in ways that emphasized the acquisition of skill in the workplace. A manly worker was a skilled worker, one who could demonstrate the experience, ability, and ingenuity needed to accomplish a job. Occupational language, shop floor culture, rituals, storytelling, and folklore all reflected workers’ belief in skill, not brute strength, as the defining characteristic of their manliness.

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