Outdoor women: thinking about gender, self, and environment through outdoor enskillment programs
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Date
2019
Authors
Asselin, Jodie
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Publisher
University of Victoria Libraries
Abstract
Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) is a North American program that focuses on developing hunting, fishing and wilderness skills among women. BOW participant engagement offers a window onto gendered responses to environmental uncertainty, an awareness of the constraints of illegitimate peripheral participation, and multifaceted self-expression. Through their own bodily engagement and dialogues, participants disassembled the dualisms inherent in single-gender-dominated activities such as hunting. The contrasting desires, incentives and apprehensions of BOW participants were shared through an active process of self-reflection and reveal the ways in which this group of women navigated the tensions that are part of their daily lives.
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Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED) applies
Keywords
Enskillment , Hunting , Gender , Environment , Participation , BOW , Becoming an Outdoors-Woman , Wilderness skills , Women's outdoor programs
Citation
Asselin, J. (2019). Outdoor women: Thinking about gender, self, and environment through outdoor enskillment programs. Anthropologica, 61(2), 283-295. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2017-0016