Bernard Capp
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199255986
- eISBN:
- 9780191719592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255986.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This chapter explores how servants in early modern England might hope to improve their situation or vent their frustrations and resentment. Although they were vulnerable and often exploited, it does ...
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This chapter explores how servants in early modern England might hope to improve their situation or vent their frustrations and resentment. Although they were vulnerable and often exploited, it does not follow that servants were necessarily passive or helpless. In fact, their situation obliged them to develop survival skills, and many also engaged in covert forms of resistance.Less
This chapter explores how servants in early modern England might hope to improve their situation or vent their frustrations and resentment. Although they were vulnerable and often exploited, it does not follow that servants were necessarily passive or helpless. In fact, their situation obliged them to develop survival skills, and many also engaged in covert forms of resistance.
Susan Dewey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520266902
- eISBN:
- 9780520948310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520266902.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter analyzes how dancers maintain themselves in Vixens fraught and often dangerous environment by developing a set of survival skills that draw upon broader cultural customs that exclude ...
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This chapter analyzes how dancers maintain themselves in Vixens fraught and often dangerous environment by developing a set of survival skills that draw upon broader cultural customs that exclude them while simultaneously offering seductive promises of quick income. It discusses the cultural model of risk that dancers employ in decision-making processes with clients and their reasons to leave sex work. Dancers interpret broader gendered principles of risk, fair exchange, and emotional labor on terms that help them justify their exploitative working conditions and social stigmatization. By discursively placing power and control in their own hands, dancers are able to see themselves as agents and entrepreneurs. At the same time, they remain attuned to the reality that their ability to take work-related risks would not last forever. Psychological trauma and emotional setbacks are other reasons for women who joined this profession out of financial necessity, to leave this work.Less
This chapter analyzes how dancers maintain themselves in Vixens fraught and often dangerous environment by developing a set of survival skills that draw upon broader cultural customs that exclude them while simultaneously offering seductive promises of quick income. It discusses the cultural model of risk that dancers employ in decision-making processes with clients and their reasons to leave sex work. Dancers interpret broader gendered principles of risk, fair exchange, and emotional labor on terms that help them justify their exploitative working conditions and social stigmatization. By discursively placing power and control in their own hands, dancers are able to see themselves as agents and entrepreneurs. At the same time, they remain attuned to the reality that their ability to take work-related risks would not last forever. Psychological trauma and emotional setbacks are other reasons for women who joined this profession out of financial necessity, to leave this work.
Barry Jean Ancelet, Marcia Gaudet, and Carl Lindahl (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037962
- eISBN:
- 9781621039518
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037962.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This book chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with ...
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This book chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the official responders, vernacular rescuers found ways around paralysis produced by a breakdown in communications and infrastructure, and were able to dispel unfounded fears produced by erroneous or questionable reporting. The essays, personal narratives, media reports, and field studies presented here all have to do with effective and often ingenious answers that emerged from the people themselves. Their solutions are remarkably different from the hamstrung government response, and their perspectives are a tonic to sensationalized media coverage. The first part of the collection deals with Gulf Coast rescuers from outside stricken communities: those who, safe in their own homes and neighborhoods, marshaled their resources to help their fellow citizens. It includes some analysis and scholarly approaches, but also includes direct responses and first-hand field reports. The second part features the words of hurricane survivors displaced from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities to Houston, Texas. In many cases, the “victims” themselves were the first responders, rescuing family, friends, and strangers. All of the stories reveal a shared history of close-knit community bonds and survival skills sharpened by hard times. The book is about what went right in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita—in spite of all that went so wrong.Less
This book chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the official responders, vernacular rescuers found ways around paralysis produced by a breakdown in communications and infrastructure, and were able to dispel unfounded fears produced by erroneous or questionable reporting. The essays, personal narratives, media reports, and field studies presented here all have to do with effective and often ingenious answers that emerged from the people themselves. Their solutions are remarkably different from the hamstrung government response, and their perspectives are a tonic to sensationalized media coverage. The first part of the collection deals with Gulf Coast rescuers from outside stricken communities: those who, safe in their own homes and neighborhoods, marshaled their resources to help their fellow citizens. It includes some analysis and scholarly approaches, but also includes direct responses and first-hand field reports. The second part features the words of hurricane survivors displaced from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities to Houston, Texas. In many cases, the “victims” themselves were the first responders, rescuing family, friends, and strangers. All of the stories reveal a shared history of close-knit community bonds and survival skills sharpened by hard times. The book is about what went right in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita—in spite of all that went so wrong.
John R. Bockstoce
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300221794
- eISBN:
- 9780300235166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221794.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
This chapter describes the practical techniques, skills, and business realities involved in the capture, manufacture, and marketing of white fox pelts, all of which affected the lives of northern ...
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This chapter describes the practical techniques, skills, and business realities involved in the capture, manufacture, and marketing of white fox pelts, all of which affected the lives of northern trapping families.Less
This chapter describes the practical techniques, skills, and business realities involved in the capture, manufacture, and marketing of white fox pelts, all of which affected the lives of northern trapping families.
