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"Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as providing important occupational and economic diversification in small and often remote communities. In such locations, the high cost and often low nutritional value of imported foods can be offset by fishing, hunting and gathering activities that contribute significantly to peoples' socio-economic circumstances and health. In some societies, fishing is regarded as womens' work, but in far more cases it is considered to be mens' work. The conventional recognition of the primary role of men in fish harvesting often results in mens' knowledge being the principal (or only) source of important local knowledge considered by fisheries' managers and decision-makers

The resulting under-representation of womens' knowledge may compromise the quality of management decision-making, suggesting the desirability of including knowledge obtained by women more especially during the processing and food preparation phases of product use. This book provides the reader with a current accounting of the generally under-recognized role of women in a variety of northern subsistence and industrial fisheries, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, rural - and urban-based, in Alaska, Arctic Canada, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors draw attention to the need for a more critical understanding of the emphasis often placed on hunting and associated male dominance in food production in northern societies, arguing that fishing as an activity may be much more ambiguous and nuanced than previously considered, and increasingly so as modernization further alters customary social roles and attitudes."--Pub. desc

Includes bibliographical references

Section 1. Gendered participation in subsistence and commercial activities -- Chercher les poissons: gender roles in a Aleut indigenous commercial economy [Native or Aboriginal peoples] / Katherine Reedy-Maschner -- "Without fish we would no longer exist": the changing role of women in Southeast Alaska's subsistence salmon harvest [Alaska] / Virginia Mulle and Sine Anahita -- "It used to be women's work": gender and subsistence fishing on the Hudson Bay coast [Hudson's Bay] / Martina Tyrrell -- Are living fish better than dead fillets? The invisibility and power of Icelandic women in aquaculture and the fishery economy [Iceland] / Anna Karlsdóttir -- Everyone goes fishing: gender and procurement in the Canadian Arctic / Kerrie-Ann Shannon -- Gender, knowledge, and environmental change related to humpback whitefish in interior Alaska / Melissa Robinson, Phyllis Morrow and Darlene Northway

Section 2. Governance practices -- "I have always wanted to go fishing": challenging gender and gender perceptions in the quota-oriented small-scale fishery of Finnmark, Norway / Siri Gerrard -- "It's our land too": Inuit women's involvement and representation in Arctic fisheries in Canada / Joanna Kafarowski -- Gender equality and governance in Arctic Swedish fisheries and reindeer herding [Sweden] / Maria Úden -- Beyond the pale: locating sea Sami women outside the official fisheries discourse in northern Norway / Elina Helander-renvall -- Women in Sámi fisheries in Norway: positions and policies [Saami] / Elisabeth Angell -- Gender, human security and northern fisheries / Gunhild Hoogensen

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