Retrofitting Frontier Masculinity for Alaska's War Against Wolves

Bibliographic Data

ID2367012
AuthorsSine Anahita (0000-0003-2610-8987, University of Alaska Fairbanks), Tamara L Mix (0000-0001-6697-2011, Oklahoma State University)
Year2006
Volume20
Issue3
Pages332-353
Publication date2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891243206286319
OpenAlexW2171529394
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited45

The state of Alaska has a complex historical relationship with its wild wolf packs. The authors expand Connell's concept of frontier masculinity to interpret articles from the Anchorage Daily News as an alternative way to understand Alaska's shifting wolf policies. Originally, state policies were shaped by frontier masculinity and characterized by claims of sportsmen's rights to kill wolves. With the reinstitution of an aggressive wolf-eradication project, Alaska policy makers retooled frontier masculinity. This altered form of masculinity, retro frontier masculinity, is constructed at the state level and deploys new strategic emphases: vilifying opponents as feminized sissies, casting wolf hunters as paternalist protectors, reifying the masculine family provider role, and framing the issue as fundamentally about competition

Archaeology · Frontier · Geography · Masculinity · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

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