Well weather is not a girl thing is it?' Contemporary amateur meteorology, gender relations and the shaping of domestic masculinity

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ID3978244
AutoresGeorgina H Endfield (0000-0001-6052-2204, University of Nottingham), Carol Morris (0000-0001-7723-5658, University of Nottingham)
Ano2012
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas233-253
Data de publicação2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2012.677470
OpenAlexW2049049728
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas52

Although there is a growing scholarship on the history of amateur meteorology, contemporary amateur meteorology has tended to remain a largely invisible social phenomenon. Moreover, questions of female involvement and gender relations therein have tended to be overlooked. This paper seeks to address this gap by drawing on interviews with members of one of the most important amateur meteorological networks in the UK—the Climatological Observers Link. The research identifies a predominantly male bias within amateur meteorology in the UK, offers insight into why and how this bias has emerged and explores the implications of this bias for gender politics in the home. It also considers the way in which, as a pursuit that is very much situated within the domestic sphere, amateur meteorology complicates traditional framings of the home as a female realm and contributes to a domestic masculinity

Amateur · Girl · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Realm · Scholarship · Situated · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Psychology