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Fanning the Flames?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 180
This study, an examination of gendered identity in
a regional Canadian community, explores the
ways in which female forest firefighters
negotiate ‘competent’ identities in the face of
formal and informal workplace barriers. Drawing on
literature that focuses on gendered subjectivity,
spatial environments, sociology of the body, and
women in non-traditional work, I examine how varied
workplace settings and the social interactions that
take place within them shape women’s gendered
subjectivity. In contrast to the existing literature
on forest fire suppression, the majority of which
focuses on male firefighters, this study explores
the daily experiences of female firefighters at the
District Fire Center and out on the fire line.
I argue female firefighters in northwestern Ontario
construct and maintain ‘competent’ workplace
identities in ways that suggest a marked departure
from the monolithic image of the firefighter as
an ‘adrenaline junkie’. In this context, the study
focuses on the negotiation of gendered identity as a
complex and nuanced exercise.
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