Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
'I want to go too!' The story behind this book
'Finally we were on our way!' Women become Antarctic
expeditioners
'I had this dream...' Why women go to Antarctica
'I just wanted to do my job well!' Women at work in Antarctica
'Everything you do is noticed there!' The impact of women's
minority status
'If you pat one, pat them all!' Relationships in Antarctica
'Tell them I survived!' Overcoming the outer and inner storms
'It just blew my mind away!' The Antarctic environment
'There's no room for heroes there!' Women assess their
experiences
Appendix
Women participating in this study and their Antarctic service
Demographic portrait of the women
Endnotes
This collection of interviews celebrates women's participation in
national and private expeditions to Antarctica. Based on 130
interviews the book ranges across the first women scientists to
visit Macquarie Island in 1959, to contemporary 'winterers'. Given
the extent to which men have traditionally marked out the
territory, physically, socially and psychologically, how do women
experience an Antarctic stay, what attracts them to remote places,
and how do they depict the stunning beauty of Antarctica itself.
Who are they, how do they speak of their work and their
experiences, and what are the effects on their lives of working in
Antarctica?
Robin Burns has not only talked to women from many different
backgrounds in order to answer such questions, but has also been a
summer expeditioner herself to gain authentic experience of her
subject. The result is a comprehensive account of women in
Antarctic expeditions. She discovers the deep-seated longings of
women to join these expe
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