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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2000
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780807848708
EAN-Code:	9780807848708
Verlag:	The University of North Carolina Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Gender and American Culture
Dimensionen:	H 234 mm / B 156 mm / D 23 mm
Gewicht:	665 gr
Seiten:	392
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Inhalt:

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.