Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture 9780807171172

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Автор: Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten
Название: Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture
ISBN: 9780807171172
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

Гендерные исследования, гендерные группы

География человека

Погода

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ISBN-10: 0807171174
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 30.06.2019
Серия: The natural world of the gulf south
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 213 x 28
Ключевые слова: Meteorology & climatology,Gender studies, gender groups,Weather,Regional & national history, NATURE / Weather,HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Подзаголовок: Hurricane naming and american culture
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Liz Skiltons innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came into question, and by 1978 a new system was introduced, including alternating male and female names in a pattern that continues today. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition. Focusing on the Gulf South, the nations hurricane coast, Skilton closely examines select storms, including Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina, and Harvey, while referencing dozens of others. Through print and online media sources, government reports, scientific data, and ephemera, she reveals how language and images portray hurricanes as gendered objects: masculine-named storms are generally characterized as stronger and more serious, while feminine-named storms are described as unladylike and in need of taming. Further, Skilton shows how the hypersexualized rhetoric surrounding Katrina and Sandy and the effeminate depictions of Georges represent evolving methods to define and explain extreme weather events. As she chronicles the evolution of gendered storm naming in the United States, Skilton delves into many other aspects of hurricane history. She describes attempts at scientific control of storms through hurricane seeding during the Cold War arms race of the 1950s and relates how Roxcy Bolton, a member of the National organisation for Women, led the crusade against feminizing hurricanes from her home in Miami near the National Hurricane Center in the 1970s. Skilton also discusses the skyrocketing interest in extreme weather events that accompanied the introduction of 24-hour news coverage of storms, as well as the impact of social media networks on Americans tracking and understanding of hurricanes and other disasters. The debate over hurricane naming continues, as Skilton demonstrates, and many Americans question the merit and purpose of the gendered naming system. What is clear is that hurricane names matter, and that they fundamentally shape our impressions of storms, for good and bad.
Дополнительное описание: General and world history|Gender studies, gender groups|Meteorology and climatology|Weather and climate: general interest

Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten