"For centuries seafaring people thought that the presence of women on board would mean bad luck: rough weather, shipwreck, and other disasters were sure to follow. Because of these beliefs and prejudices women were supposedly excluded from the maritime domain. In the field of maritime history too, the ship and the sea have predominantly been perceived as a space for men. This volume of the Yearbook of Women’s History challenges these notions. It asks: to what extent were the sea and the ship ever male-dominated and masculine spaces? How have women been part of seafaring communities, maritime undertakings, and maritime culture? How did gender notions impact life on board and vice versa? From a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume moves from Indonesia to the Faroe Islands, from the Mediterranean to Newfoundland; bringing to light the presence of women and the workings of gender on sailing, whaling, steam, cruise, passenger, pirate, and navy ships. As a whole it demonstrates the diversity and the agency of women at sea from ancient times to the present day."-- Provided by publisher.
Preface / Iris van der Zande -- Introduction: Taking Women on Board / Djoeke van Netten -- Women and Children First: Uncovering the Presence of Women and Children on Board. Searching for Signs of Seafaring Women in the Age of Sail / Laurel Seaborn -- Overlooked Inhabitants of the 'Wooden World': Child Passengers as Part of Shipboard Societies in the Age of Sail / Sarah Lentz -- 'The Late Fashion': Discovering Whaling Wives at Sea / Joan Druett -- Jackie of All Trades: The Emergence of Stewardesses in the Belgian Fleet, 1870-1914 / Kristof Loockx -- The Cruise Tourist's Corset: Gender, Space, and Mobility on Dutch Youth Cruises in the 1930s / Iris van der Zande -- Experiences at Sea: Women Travelling from Europe to Asia and Australia. An Unfaithful Wife and a Cross-Dressing Soldier: Christian Burckhardt's Report of Two Women Sailing to Batavia in 1675 / Simon Karstens -- Neptune's Visit Made Palatable: Gender and Journeys over the Line in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Felicity Jensz -- Zusters op zee: Reiservaringen van missiezusters naar Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië in de negentiende en twintigste / Ron Brand Kirsten Kamphuis -- Women in Ocean Science: The Two-Part Research Programme of the Siboga Expedition / Emily Hutcheson -- Salt Fish Maids: Untold Stories of Gender and Sex in the Labrador Floater Fishery / Vicki S. Hallett -- Violence and Victims: Gendered Agency on Board. Piracy and the Hidden History of Female Agency The Case of the Buccaneers / Virginia W. Lunsford -- Januari's schim / Alicia Schrikker -- Sexing the Steamship: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Maritime Travel / Elisa Camiscioli -- Women/Sea/Misogyny: Ending Silences about Sexual Abuse at Sea / Jo Stanley -- Problematizing Homoerotic Relationships on the High Seas: The Exhibition 'Desire Flows Like the Sea' / Víctor Ramírez Tur -- Stories to be Told: Power and Representations of Women at Sea. Woman and the Sea in Classical and Christian Texts / Roberta Franchi -- The Stranger Sea Queens: Gender, Migration, and Power in Sulawesi and Javanese Traditions / Muhammad Buana -- 'Tweete Sielle': The Affective Presence of Women in the Sailing Letters of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Seafarers / Stefan Roel Reyes -- Spiritual Anchors or Sinful Shoals: Women, Religion, and Spirituality in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859 / Valerie Sallis -- Women and Whaling in the Faroe Islands / Russell Fielding Ina Seethaler.
Eighteen contributions in English, two in Dutch.