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The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives

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a great book that takes your mind for a ride on the most dangerous job in the world,fishing in alaska and being a woman too.

This is a well written book about fascinating women. I know many of the women Leslie writes about and all are perfectly illustrated by the rich text within the book. Good job!

This book made the struggles and accomplishments of Alaska's fishing women a great read! I felt like I got to know these women as friends.

Reads like a research paper for a masters degreee

This book, while well written by a worthy author, focuses too much on the experiences of middle class women to the neglect of the experiences of Alaskan Native and local working class people. Thus we have the complaints of at least one individual that, based on my own personal experiences with this person, are entirely exaggerated and reflect incredible narcissism, snobbery and lack of consideration for other people. It was exactly this mentality, masquerading as politically correct feminism, that caused the director of the nursing program at the Univeristy of Alaska to be fired during this period.

This is a hard job for anyone. Why do these women whine about how difficult the situations were (are).