Gender Construction and Diversity in Icelandic Fishing Communities

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  • Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir University of Iceland

Abstract

This article combines an analysis of the social construction of gender inequality with an examination of the construction of other kinds of diversity among women in small fishing villages in Iceland. This combination is necessary in order to avoid the creation of a static categorization of women in the fisheries. The construction of commonalities and diversities among women and between women and men is examined. Gender and diversity are generated locally, and in relation to the larger world. Women have a common identity as inhabitants of small fishing villages, an important identity they share with men to some extent. However, among them there are important dissimilarities based on many factors, including, for example, the different relations to the fisheries experienced by fishermen's wives and fish processors.

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Author Biography

Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, University of Iceland

Unnur Dis Skaptadottir earned her B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (1995). Her doctoral dissertation focusses on gender relations in Icelandic fishing communities. She has published and presented papers on the subject. She is currently examining new aspects of gender constructions in the fisheries. Dr. Skaptaddttir teaches anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Iceland. Her major fields of interest include theories of globalization, ethnicity and feminist perspectives.

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Published

2022-06-03

How to Cite

Skaptadóttir, U. D. (2022). Gender Construction and Diversity in Icelandic Fishing Communities. Anthropologica, 38(2), 271–287. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2045

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

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