num_pages: 372
description: Describes the social conditions for women, who, during the whaling industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were commonly left alone while their husbands worked on the seas for up to five years at a time.
language: English
title: Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
titlecomplete: Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
genres: School, History, Womens, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr