Research Catalog

Title

Wildcat women : narratives of the women breaking ground in Alaska's oil and gas industry / by Carla Williams ; commentary by Julia Feuer-Cotter (Arctic Environmental Historian) ; foreword by Dermot Cole (Award-Winning Alaska Reporter, Editor, and Author).

Author

Williams, Carla, 1965-

Publication

• Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xxiii, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color map; 23 cm

Summary

• "Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did the sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living conditions, performing and excelling at "a man's job in a man's world." They faced down challenges on and off the job: they drove busses over ice roads through snowstorms; wrestled with massive pipes; and operated dangerous valves that put their lives literally in their hands; they also fought union hall red tape, challenged discriminatory practices, and fought for equal pay--and sometimes won. The women talk about the roads that brought them to this unusual career, where they often gave up comfort and convenience and felt isolated and alienated. They also tell of the lifelong friendships and a sense of family that bonded these unlikely wildcats. The physical and emotional hardship detailed in these stories exemplifies their courage, tenacity, resilience, and leadership, and shows how their fight for recognition and respect benefited woman workers everywhere"--
• "True stories and profiles of women who worked on the Alaska pipeline"--

Subjects

• Women's rights
• Alaska
• Sex discrimination against women
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska) > History
• Women's rights > Alaska
• Alaska > Trans-Alaska Pipeline
• Sex discrimination against women > Alaska
• History
• Women > Employment > Alaska

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.

ISBN

• 9781602233546
• 1602233543

LCCN

2017059970

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library