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Captain Ahab Had a Wife : New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 - Lisa Norling

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870

By: Lisa Norling

Paperback | 16 October 2000

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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. |A social history that uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws from a variety of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories to uncover the women's often poignant and painful stories.
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[This book] gives a larger, more nuanced picture of whaling behind the scenes than anywhere else I know of."American Studies" �This book� gives a larger, more nuanced picture of whaling behind the scenes than anywhere else I know of."American Studies" A signal achievement in American women's and gender history. . . . Scholars will ignore her at their peril."Journal of American History" This book is required reading . . . for anyone interested in maritime gender systems."International Journal of Maritime History" "[This book] gives a larger, more nuanced picture of whaling behind the scenes than anywhere else I know of."American Studies"" A thorough and penetrating history."Sea History" Gracefully written."William and Mary Quarterly" [Norling] has made full use of the vast archive of women's papers that, willy nilly, were collected along with those of their men, as America began preserving the memory of one of its greatest early industries. ("Times Literary Supplement

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