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Abstract
First published advance online September 30, 2019Wildcat Women: Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska’s Oil and Gas Industry. By Carla Williams. Fairbanks: Published by University of Alaska Press, 2018. 232 pages.
Highlights
Wildcat Women is a profound example of testimonial literature
The book is atypical in structure and includes a compilation of interviews with fourteen women workers of the Alaska North Slope
The cold—Rosemary Carroll spoke of frostbitten fingers and “being cold for twenty years”—heavy equipment, men, wolves, and bears are some of the dangers the North Slope trailblazers faced
Summary
This 2018 memoir and collection of interviews bears witness to numerous individual women’s experiences working on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System from 1975 and beyond, and to North American women more generally, and the freedom and power brought to them by sustainable employment and equal pay. The stories told in this book are personal and specific, but evince the larger social context that provided just the right conditions for a second-wave, post-war liberation of women from homemaking (should they have so desired).
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