ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the masculinities of two rural American subgroups (both white racially), living in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington (USA): the ‘Locals’ (symbolized locally by loggers) and the ‘Public Employees’ (symbolized by the US Forest Service). In this context, men and women were perceived as very different creatures, and sex roles were strictly divided. This division was cross-cut by an equally clear demarcation between the two occupational groupings. The data from which this analysis was made came from three years of ethnographic research (1973–1976), studying an Experimental Schools Project funded by the National Institute of Education.
