Tempest Hurricane Naming And American Culture Liz Skilton by Liz Skilton 9780807171172, 9780807179963, 9780807171455, 0807171174, 0807179965, 080717145X instant download after payment.

Liz Skilton’s innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came into question, and by 1978 a new system was introduced, including alternating male and female names in a pattern that continues today. In Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyze this often controversial tradition.
Focusing on the Gulf South―the nation’s “hurricane coast”―Skilton closely examines select storms, including Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina, and Harvey, while referencing dozens of others. Through print and online media sources, government reports, scientific data, and ephemera, she reveals how language and images portray hurricanes as gendered masculine-named storms are generally characterized as stronger and more serious, while feminine-named storms are described as “unladylike” and in need of taming. Further, Skilton shows how the hypersexualized rhetoric surrounding Katrina and Sandy and the effeminate depictions of Georges represent evolving methods to define and explain extreme weather events.
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