TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Women's roles in a disaster
JO  - Applied behavior science review
A1  - Fothergill, Alice
SP  - 125
EP  - 143
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - In this study I examine women's roles in the 1997 Grand Forks flood. Based on field research and sixty in-depth interviews, I explore women's community, family, and work roles before, during, and after the disaster. By examining the ways in which women's roles shifted and the meanings the women attached to the roles, I find that the women experienced role accumulation, which resulted in an expansion of both their roles and their sense of self. By successfully performing the "greedy" family role, the emergent community role, and expanding work roles the women often discovered a new sense of confidence, self-worth, and competence.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1068-8595
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1068-8595(00)80014-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -