From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains (eBook)

250 Years of Women at Sea

Jo Stanley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6877-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Traditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely known, even by today's seawomen. From before the 1750s, women fancying an oceangoing life had either to disguise themselves as cabin 'boys' or acquire a co-operative husband with a ship attached. Early pioneers faced superstition and discrimination in the briny 'monasteries'. Today women captain cruise ships as big as towns and work at the highest level in the global maritime industry. This comprehensive exploration looks at the Merchant Navy, comparing it to the Royal Navy in which Wrens only began sailing in 1991. Using interviews and sources never before published, Jo Stanley vividly reveals the incredible journey across time taken by these brave and lively women salts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 250 years of women at sea • boat • Boats • cabin boys • cabin boys, from cabin boys to captains, maritime, ships, boats, women in history, women's history • Captain • captains • conductresses • Cruises • crusie ships • Dancers • |discrimination • discrimination, captain, crusie ships, cruises, global maritime industry, the merchant navy, the royal navy, wrens, WRNS, women salts, women’s history, women in history • disguise • doctors • floating palaces • From cabin boys to captains • From cabin boys to captains, 250 years of women at sea, stormy seas, the seas, dancers, pursettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains, conductresses, waves, floating palaces, windjammers, seawomen, oceans, ocean, cabin boys, disguise, husband, ship, ships, boats, boat, vessel, vessels, • From cabin boys to captains, 250 years of women at sea, stormy seas, the seas, dancers, pursettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains, conductresses, waves, floating palaces, windjammers, seawomen, oceans, ocean, cabin boys, disguise, husband, ship, ships, boats, boat, vessel, vessels, superstition, • global maritime industry • husband • ocean • Oceans • pursettes • seawomen • Ship • Ships • stewardesses • stormy seas • the merchant navy • the royal navy • the seas • Vessel • Vessels • Waves • Windjammers • Women in History • women salts • Women’s history • wrens • WRNS
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6877-X / 075096877X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6877-5 / 9780750968775