Iron Men, Wooden Women

by Creighton, Margaret S.; Norling, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780801851605
• ISBN10: 0801851602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-22
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

'This collection not only sketches life at sea in all its detail and diversity but also expands our understanding of the connections of gender, occupation, class, colonization, and race at sea and on land in the nineteenth century. The book combines first-rate scholarship with lively, accessible writing-no small accomplishment!'

Author Biography

Margaret S. Creighton teaches history at Bates College. Lisa Norling teaches history at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contributors
Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates	p. 1
Female Sailors Bold: Transvestite Heroines and the Markers of Gender and Class	p. 34
The Domestic Cost of Seafaring: Town Leaders and Seamen's Families in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island	p. 55
Ahab's Wife: Women and the American Whaling Industry, 1820-1870	p. 70
The Captain's Wife at Sea	p. 92
Davy Jones' Locker Room: Gender and the American Whaleman, 1830-1870	p. 118
"Every Inch a Man": Gender in the Lives of African American Seamen, 1800-1860	p. 138
"A Maritime Race": Masculinity and the Racial Division of Labor in British Merchant Ships, 1900-1939	p. 169
Sailing Ships and Steamers, Angels and Whores: History and Gender in Conrad's Maritime Fiction	p. 189
Opening Windows toward the Sea: Harmony and Reconciliation in American Women's Sea Literature	p. 204
Notes	p. 227
Index	p. 287
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