@article{ref1,
title="'We Will Make Meaning Out of This': Women's Cultural Responses to the Red River Valley Flood",
journal="International journal of mass emergencies and disasters",
year="2000",
author="Enarson, E.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="39-64",
abstract="Recent work on gender relations in disasters focuses largely on women's material experiences and vulnerabilities. This paper draws on cultural studies theory to interrogate gender symbolically in the context of a major U.S. flood. Based on analysis of cultural artifacts and &quot;texts&quot; as well as interviews conducted for a larger study of women's work in the 1997 Red River Valley flood, the author argues that women particularly employ grassroots popular culture to interpret disastrous events. A close reading of two flood quilts illustrates how interpersonal networks and traditional quilting skills helped women express gender-specific experiences and feelings, and convey an otherwise neglected ecofeminist critique of disaster vulnerability. The author concludes that women's cultural responses to disasters afford a neglected angle of vision on human responses to catastrophe.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0280-7270",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}