Women in Port : : Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 /

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

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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...

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

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