Iron Men, Wooden Women Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920

Name: Iron Men, Wooden Women Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920
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ISBN: 9780801851605

ISBN-10: 0801851602

ISBN-13: 9780801851605

Edition: 1996

Authors: Margaret S. Creighton, Lisa Norling

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From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources--from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources--the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on "iron men" aboard ship and "stoic women" ashore. Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction


Contributors



Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates




Female Sailors Bold: Transvestite Heroines and the Markers of Gender and Class




The Domestic Cost of Seafaring: Town Leaders and Seamen's Families in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island




Ahab's Wife: Women and the American Whaling Industry, 1820-1870




The Captain's Wife at Sea




Davy Jones' Locker Room: Gender and the American Whaleman, 1830-1870




"Every Inch a Man": Gender in the Lives of African American Seamen, 1800-1860




"A Maritime Race": Masculinity and the Racial Division of Labor in British Merchant Ships, 1900-1939




Sailing Ships and Steamers, Angels and Whores: History and Gender in Conrad's Maritime Fiction




Opening Windows toward the Sea: Harmony and Reconciliation in American Women's Sea Literature



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