Into the Fire
Subtitle: Disaster and the Remaking of Gender
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781442646919
Subjects: Disaster relief; Women, social conditions; Women, psychology; Sex role; Disasters
Description: "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.