The small Methow Valley community of Winthrop, Washington, has reinvented itself as a western-theme town. Winthrop women function as trail guides, wranglers, horse trainers, packers, and ranchers and work in an environment where gender stereotypes must be carefully preserved for the sake of the tourist-based economy. Yet these women often subvert and undermine traditional gender images with humor. How the wrangling women of Winthrop accomplish this challenging balancing act is a fascinating study of women’s manipulation of language and gender stereotypes in the modern West. Kristin McAndrews states that she “began to suspect that the reason there was so little scholarship on women’s humor was that male researchers didn’t understand it, or perhaps they didn’t recognize it.” To examine the humor of one group of women, she conducted interviews with Winthrop’s female wranglers, collecting stories about their lives as workers and as members of their community. For all these women, professional success depends on courage, ingenuity, a sense of humor, and a facility with language—as well as on an ability to perform within the traditional gender stereotypes evoked by their town’s Wild west image.

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Revamp your data landscape and implement highly effective data pipelines in AWS with this hands-on guide Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Execute extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data lakes, data warehouses, and databases Implement effective Pandas data operation with data wrangler Integrate pipelines with AWS data services Book DescriptionData wrangling is the process of cleaning, transforming, and organizing raw, messy, or unstructured data into a structured format. It involves processes such as data cleaning, data integration, data transformation, and data enrichment to ensure that the data is accurate, consistent, and suitable for analysis. Data Wrangling on AWS equips you with the knowledge to reap the full potential of AWS data wrangling tools. First, you’ll be introduced to data wrangling on AWS and will be familiarized with data wrangling services available in AWS. You’ll understand how to work with AWS Glue DataBrew, AWS data wrangler, and AWS Sagemaker. Next, you’ll discover other AWS services like Amazon S3, Redshift, Athena, and Quicksight. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced topics such as performing Pandas data operation with AWS data wrangler, optimizing ML data with AWS SageMaker, building the data warehouse with Glue DataBrew, along with security and monitoring aspects. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to perform data wrangling using AWS services.What you will learn Explore how to write simple to complex transformations using AWS data wrangler Use abstracted functions to extract and load data from and into AWS datastores Configure AWS Glue DataBrew for data wrangling Develop data pipelines using AWS data wrangler Integrate AWS security features into Data Wrangler using identity and access management (IAM) Optimize your data with AWS SageMaker Who this book is for This book is for data engineers, data scientists, and business data analysts looking to explore the capabilities, tools, and services of data wrangling on AWS for their ETL tasks. Basic knowledge of Python, Pandas, and a familiarity with AWS tools such as AWS Glue, Amazon Athena is required to get the most out of this book.