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Title	Images and realities - women's experiences in a Newfoundland and Labrador fishery crisis
Author	Robbins, Nancy
Description	Thesis (M.W.S.) --Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997. Women's Studies
Date	1997
Pagination	vii, 169 leaves, ill.
Subject	Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (Canada); Women fishers--Newfoundland and Labrador; Women fish trade workers--Newfoundland and Labrador; Unemployed women workers--Newfoundland and Labrador; Cod fisheries--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador
Degree	M. W. S.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland.Women's Studies Programme
Discipline	Women's Studies Programme
Language	eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 135-147
Abstract	This thesis explores the "line of fault" (Smith, 1987) between women's experiences in the fishery crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador and the construction of the fishery crisis in the print media in this province. -- An analytical framework based on the work of Dorothy Smith guides the analysis. Smith (1987: 50) argues that a line of fault or a "disjuncture between experiences and the forms in which these experiences are socially expressed" occurs in society. In this case, the experiences of women in the fishery crisis as expressed in a series of workshops entitled Gathering Our Voices are contrasted with the results of a media analysis of The Evening Telegram coverage of the crisis. This analysis reveals two different stories: women's expressed realities in the fishery crisis and the expression and framing of the fishery crisis in the print media. -- Women are under represented in the print media of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their absence as authorized knowers, reporters, and in news photos show that there is a lack of news stories written from women's point of view. A qualitative analysis of The Evening Telegram also shows that women's issues and concerns are not represented in the coverage of the fishery crisis. Instead, the fishery crisis is framed from a male centered point of view in the print media. -- Women's experiences in the fishery crisis are unique and different from men's as women held different roles in the paid and unpaid sectors of the fishing industry. Women worked as mothers, wives and daughters in the household and as fish plant workers and harvesters in the paid sectors of the fishery. Women are concerned about themselves, their families and their future in the rural fishing communities of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Type	Text
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	a1234328
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(20.91 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Robbins_Nancy.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	52758.cpd