TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - 'We Will Make Meaning Out of This': Women's Cultural Responses to the Red River Valley Flood
JO  - International journal of mass emergencies and disasters
A1  - Enarson, E.
SP  - 39
EP  - 64
VL  - 18
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "texts" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0280-7270
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -