Making Women Visible in Disasters

Problematising the Private Domain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5158243
AutoresMaureen H Fordham, Maureen Fordham (Anglia Ruskin University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas126-143
Fecha de publicación1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-7717.00081
PMID9654812
OpenAlexW2094398967
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas54

Gender awareness and sensitivity in disaster research and management remains uncommon and tends to focus on the developing rather than the developed world. This paper uses a feminist oral geography to present some findings about women's experiences in two floods in Scotland. It is conceptualised around public and private (masculinised and feminised) space, problematising the private domain and presenting it, in the feminist research tradition, as a legitimate object of research. It shows the ordinary and everyday to be more opaque and complex than usually imagined and makes recommendations for their recognition and incorporation into disaster management. While there is a specific focus on the private domain of the home, this is not intended to reinforce gender stereotypes but simply to recognise the reality of many of the women interviewed. It concludes that disaster research generally has yet to advance much beyond the earliest stages of feminist studies which merely sought to make women visible in society

Domain (mathematical analysis · Emergency management · Focus (optics · Focus group · Geography · Object (grammar · Political science · Public domain · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Gender Studies · Law