In the bunkrooms, adorned with family photos and a needlepoint extolling the virtues of firefighters — respected, proud, dependable — Mr. Drayton’s locker was marked “Big Earl.”

As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination is masculism. And masculism is already antisocial because masculism as an ideology universalizes man as the maker of history.

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Ten women are considered by Mr. Rogers, of various nationalities and from various social strata […] . Inez Montez, Irish by birth but Spanish by choice and adding for years to the color of the California Gold Coast, makes up the tenth of this short dozen of Gallant Ladies.