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Women's The fish row

On 4 March held Helga Katrina Tryggvadóttir lecture in Vik-Maritime Museum by the Icelandic Lighthouse company (delete)-club for Icelandic coastal culture. As she told about a research she did for the Ministry of Transport in 2008. The objective was to assess the number of women who attend the sea in Iceland, working conditions, experience of work and attitudes of society. The proportion of women seafarers has been and is today very high, but women in Iceland, however, pursued sea for centuries. There does not seems be lot of discrimination or prejudice against women at home and explain why women do not sea to a greater extent be found in the cultural norm rather than the fear of prejudice. Slides from lecture published here but research in its entirety can be found at website under the title "Working Women at Sea"

Þær Fiska sem Róa

 
Róðu betur, kær minn karl
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Hér má sjá fyrirlestur sem Ragnhildur Bragadóttir skjalastjóri hjá Biskupsstofu flutti á fundi hjá Félagi um átjándu aldar fræði. Aðalumfjöllunarefni fyrirlestrarins er sjósókn íslenskra kvenna á 18. öld. Meðal þess sem Ragnhildur fjallar um eru kjör og staða þessara kvenna í samfélaginu, aðbúnaður og afkoma þeirra á sjó. Í fyrirlestrinum fjallar Ragnheiður einnig stuttlega um tvær fræknustu kvensjóhetjur 18. aldar, þær Björgu Einarsdóttur og Þuríði Einarsdóttur. 

Róðu betur, kær minn karl

 
"Maiden king" and legendary heroes: tales and contemporary of Þuríði Einarsdóttur

Container-ship-bridge_smallSandra Sif Einarsdóttir discusses in her BA thisis from 2002 about Þuríði Einarsdóttir (1777-1863) is one of the few local women who have served as Chairman to the sea and pursued row east of the mountain, from 11 to 53 years of age. Þuríður was controversial lady, who had to fight for her place and had a sometimes quarreled with her compatriots but always did it well at sea. The essay can be read at whole in Icelandic.

"Meykóngur" og þjóðsagnahetja: sagnir og samtímaheimildir um Þuríði Einarsdóttur

 
Gender Construction and Diversity in Icelandic Fishing Communities

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Grein eftir Unni Dís Skaptadóttur sem birtist í fræðiritinu Anthropologica árið 1996. Hér vefur Unnur saman greiningu á samfélagslegri mótun kynjamisréttis og skoðun á mótun annars konar fjölbreytileika kvenna í litlum sjávarsamfélögum á Íslandi. Slík greiningarleg samþætting er nauðsynleg svo að unnt sé að koma í veg fyrir frosna flokkun á konum í sjávarútvegi.

 Gender Construction and Diversity in Icelandic Fishing Communities

 
Gender Construction at Work in Icelandic Fishplants

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Grein eftir Unni Dís Skaptadóttur og Guðbjörgu Lindu Rafnsdóttur sem birtist í NORA árið 2000 og fjallar um niðurstöður rannsókna af kynjaðri mótun í fiskverkunarhúsum á Íslandi. Leitast er við að skilja þá ferla sem leiða til kynjunar starfsstétta, starfa, skipulag vinnu og tengsl þar á milli þannig að hægt verði að varpa ljósi á kynjað misrétti, lægri stöðu kvenna á atvinnumarkaði og hvernig kynjaflokkar og sjálfsmyndir eru mótaðar og endurmótaðar innan vinnustaðarins.

Gender Construction at Work in Icelandic Fishplants

 
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