Women in Port : Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 / / edited by Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell.

• TeilnehmendeR: Catterall, Douglas.; Campbell, Jodi, 1968-
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Atlantic World 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (461 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the last few decades the scholarship on women’s roles and women’s worlds in the Atlantic basin c. 1400-1850 has grown considerably. Much of this work has understandably concentrated on specific groups of women, women living in particular regions or communities, or women sharing a common status in law or experience. Women in Port synthesizes the experiences of women from all quarters of the Atlantic world and from many walks of life, social statuses, and ethnicities by bringing together work by Atlantic world scholars on the cutting edge of their respective fields. Using a wide-ranging set of case studies that reveal women's richly textured lives, Women in Port helps reframe our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic World. Contributors are Gayle Brunelle, Jodi Campbell, Douglas Catterall, Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook, Gordon DesBrisay, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Philip Havik, Stewart Royce King, Ernst Pijning, Ty Reese, Dominique Rogers, Martha Shattuck, Kimberly Todt, and Natalie Zacek.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women’s Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic / Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell -- Section One: Metropolitan Frameworks -- The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville’s Maritime District / Alexandra Parma Cook -- Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century / Gordon DesBrisay -- “Ports, Petticoats and Power?” Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia / Sheryllynne Haggerty -- Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands / Natalie Zacek -- Section Two: Traders and Travelers -- The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500–1650 / Gayle Brunelle -- Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland / Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- “Can She be a woman?” Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic / Ernst Pijning -- Lives On the Seas: Women’s Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Section Three: Interactions and Intermediaries -- Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750–1807 / Ty M. Reese -- Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women’s Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region / Philip J. Havik -- Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750–1790 / Dominique Rogers and Stewart King -- Conclusion: Women in the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect / Noble David Cook -- Bibliography -- Index.