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Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 17001920 (Gender Relations in the American Experience),Used
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From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly maledominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their coauthors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the AngloAmerican age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sourcesfrom diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sourcesthe authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, maleonly life led to models of gender behavior based on 'iron men' aboard ship and 'stoic women' ashore.Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women'transvestite heroines'who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.
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