Women in Port
Subtitle: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800
By: Edited by Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell
Series: Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 -- VOLUME 25
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789004233171; 9789004233195
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of maps and illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of contributors; title: Introduction : mother courage and her sisters : women's worlds; title: In the premodern Atlantic / Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell; title: Metropolitan frameworks; title: The women of early modern Triana : life, death and survival; title: Strategies in Seville's maritime district / Alexandra Parma Cook; title: Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic : women and woollens in the seventeenth century / Gordon DesBrisay; title: "Ports, petticoats and power?" : women and work in early-national Philadelphia / Sheryllynne Haggerty; title: Between lady and slave : white working women in the eighteenth-century Leeward Islands / Natalie Zacek; title: Traders and travelers; title: The price of assimilation : Spanish and Portuguese women in French cities, 1500-1650 / Gayle Brunelle; title: Capable entrepreneurs : the women merchants and traders of new Netherland / Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck; title: "Can she be a woman?" : gender and contraband in the revolutionary Atlantic / Ernst Pijning; title: Lives on the seas : women's trajectories in port cities of the Portuguese overseas empire / Junia Ferreira Furtado; title: Interactions and intermediaries; title: Wives, brokers, and laborers : women at Cape coast, 1750-1800 / Ty M. Reese; title: Gendering the black Atlantic : women's agency in coastal trade settlements in the Guinea Bissau region / Philip J. Havik; title: Housekeepers, merchants, rentieres: free women of color in the port cities of colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790 / Dominique Rogers and Stewart King; title: Conclusion: women in th port cities of the early modern Atlantic world : retrospect and prospect / Noble David Cook; title: Bibliography; title: Index.