Women in the Fishing

The Roots of Power between the Sexes

Bibliographic Data

ID2107555
AuthorsPaul Thompson (0000-0003-2476-2803, University of Essex, corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume27
Issue1
Pages3-32
Publication date1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500013645
OpenAlexW2135665542
LanguageEN
Citations received51
References cited35

Fishing is commoniy thought of as a man's business. Yet fishing has a special interest for understanding the position of women, both past and present. There is a double reason for this: for the masculine image of the industry conceals the reality of an occupation which, by removing men to sea, makes them peculiarly dependent on the work of women ashore. And this dependence gives women not only more responsibility, but also the possibility of more power, both in the home and in the community. My concern here is therefore with the sexual division both of labour and of power. Of the two issues, the second is considerably more complicated. For while the character of women's work in fishing communities has again and again taken parallel forms in different societies, this is much less true of its consequences for the social position of women

Character (mathematics) · Division of labour · Economics · Fishing · Political science · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues

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