Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 - Paperback
by Lisa Norling
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lisa NorlingSeries:Gender and American CultureTheme:Chronological Period/19th Century, Cultural Region/New England, Sex & Gender/FemininePublish date:10/16/2000Pages:392
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807848708ISBN-10:0807848700UPC:9780807848708Book Category:History, Transportation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ships & Boats, Women's StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, HistorySize:9.26 x 6.22 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCTK5H5RK4
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources -- including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories -- to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore.
Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807848708ISBN-10:0807848700UPC:9780807848708Book Category:History, Transportation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Ships & Boats, Women's StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, HistorySize:9.26 x 6.22 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCTK5H5RK4
Lisa Norling, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, is coeditor of Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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