No Place for Wimps: Working on Western Australian Trawlers

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  • Leonie Stella Murdoch University

Abstract

This article is part of a larger project, undertaken as a doctoral thesis, analyzing gender relations in the Western Australian fishing industry. The article is based on qualitative research and the primary focus is the sexual division of labour on prawn and scallop trawlers. Few women own or operate boats or companies and I argue that the trawler, as a worksite, is dominated by a competitive and aggressive heterosexual masculinity that sustains an inequitable division of labour

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Author Biography

Leonie Stella, Murdoch University

Leonie Stella is a postgraduate student of the Sociology Department at Murdoch University, Western Australia. In 1990 she graduated as a mature-age student with Honours in History. Since then she has been employed as a tutor in courses on the sociology of women's work, and as a professional historian and research consultant. She recently published "Normalization and Beyond: Public Sector Residential Care 1965-1990," in Cocks, Fox, Brogan and Lee, eds., Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia (Western Australia: Edith Cowan University, 1996). Her current research focusses on the labour of women in the fishing industry in Fremantle, Shark Bay and Darwin.

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Published

2022-06-03

How to Cite

Stella, L. (2022). No Place for Wimps: Working on Western Australian Trawlers. Anthropologica, 38(2), 173–195. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2041

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Vol. 38 No. 2 (1996): Women in the Fisheries

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