Women's Work and Lives in Offshore Oil

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Research in Economic Anthropology

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Subject Area: Sociology and Public Policy

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Title:	Women's Work and Lives in Offshore Oil
Author(s):	Diane E. Austin
Volume:	24 Editor(s): Norbert Dannhaeuser, Cynthia Werner ISBN: 978-0-76231-225-2 eISBN: 978-1-84950-354-9
Citation:	Diane E. Austin (2006), Women's Work and Lives in Offshore Oil, in Norbert Dannhaeuser, Cynthia Werner (ed.) Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections (Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.163-204
DOI:	10.1016/S0190-1281(05)24006-4 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	Despite being the standard against which all other offshore work sites are compared, the male-dominated work culture of the Gulf of Mexico has received little attention from social scientists. Drawing on the literature on women and work in the United States, on women in the U.S. South, in the military, and in the oil field, and on interviews with hundreds of individuals this paper explores the roles of women in the development and maintenance of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana.