Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
by Lisa Norling
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Author: Lisa NorlingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-16
ISBN: 0807848700
Number of pages: 392
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Reviews of Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
Book Review: Better then Sena Jeter
Summary: 3 Stars
While Lisa Norling certaintly did not write a book to change our times, she has written the best Ahab's wife book we have. Our only other real chioce seems to be Sena Jeter, and she is not an exeptional writer of any magnitude. So when choosing between the two, Lisa is the way to go.
Summary of Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
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.
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