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- Title
Fishermen's Wives: A Case Study of a Middle Atlantic Coastal Fishing Community.
- Authors
Dixon, Richard D.; Lowery, Roger C.; Sabella, James C.; Hepburn, Marcus J.
- Abstract
Ethnographic fieldwork and a social survey were employed to generate descriptive information and internal comparisons among 67 fishermen's wives from Harkers Island, North Carolina, and to make comparisons between these females and 167 nonfishermen's wives and 37 married fishermen (their husbands) from the island. Results indicated that the fishermen's wives were substantially unenthusiastic about their husbands' occupational choice and suggested that these females may exercise a dissuasive influence upon the intergenerational perpetuation o f fishing as a way of life. Very fen, significant differences were found in 107 comparative tests with the two other subject categories, suggesting substantial cultural homogeneity among residents from the research site and the persistence of a strong maritime tradition.
- Subjects
HARKERS Island (N.C.); NORTH Carolina; FISHING villages; FISHERS' spouses; FIELD research; KINSHIP; GENDER role; GENDER differences (Psychology); DOMESTIC relations
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1984, Vol 10, Issue 1-2, p33
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00287745