At home afloat : women on the waters of the Pacific Northwest /

Women were considered bad luck on boats at sea until far into the nineteenth century. Nancy Pagh studies women active in the Pacific maritime off the Northwest and Canadian coasts as these traditional prohibitions broke down. She examines the influence of gender on the roles of women at sea, the spa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pagh, Nancy, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary : Moscow, Idaho : University of Calgary Press ; University of Idaho Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Women and the sea > Northwest, Pacific.
Seafaring life > Northwest, Pacific.
Boats and boating > Northwest, Pacific.
Sex role > Northwest, Pacific.
Femmes et mer > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
Vie en mer > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
Bateaux > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
Rôle selon le sexe > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Boats and boating
Seafaring life
Sex role
Women and the sea
Pacific Northwest
Alberta author.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: At Home Afloat
  • Northwest Coast Marine Tourism: A Contextual History
  • Gender and Regional Identity
  • Cruising and Steam Beginnings
  • Steam Tourism
  • The Gas Engine and Recreational Boating
  • Homemaking Tourists
  • Space for the Mate: Superstition, Ritual, and a Woman's Place
  • Space and Gender Politics
  • Floating Worlds
  • Women and Cruising Literature
  • Women Boating the Northwest Coast
  • Three Pleasure Craft Accounts
  • Three Work Boat Accounts
  • Imaginary Indians: Feminine Discourse and Colonialism Afloat
  • Theorizing Colonial Women's Travel Writing
  • Contacts
  • Counterfeit Ladies
  • The Victorian Cult of the Home
  • At Home in the Company of Strangers
  • A Sea Change
  • "Getting Our Dresses Wet": Women, Girls, and the Natural Environment
  • Home/Nature/Woman
  • Indescribable Landscapes
  • Collectable Nature
  • "An Atavistic Female Instinct"
  • Daughters of the Coast.

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