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"[A] thoughtful study."
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Gracefully written, the book is about contradictions: between what society expected of women and men and what the vicissitudes of life demanded and actually produced. (William and Mary Quarterly)
A thorough and penetrating history of the whaling masters' wives of Southern New England and the complex culture created through their interactions with their often absent husbands and each other. (Sea History
With a deft pen Lisa Norling illuminates the everyday lives of families living in the whaling communities in Southeastern New England during the 18th and 19th centuries. (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Norling has adeptly woven together a number of threads--the history of New England whaling, Nantucket Quakerism, and the social and economic world of whaling communities. (Choice)
[Norling] has made full use of the vast archive of women's papers that, willy nilly, were collected along with those of their men, as America began preserving the memory of one of its greatest early industries. (Times Literary Supplement
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture),Lisa Norling,The University of North Carolina Press,0807825611,Agriculture - General,Fisheries,History,History - U.S.,History: American,Massachusetts,New Bedford,Ships & Shipbuilding - History,Social conditions,Sociology Of Women,Technology,United States - 19th Century,United States - State & Local - General,Whalers' spouses,Whaling,Women,Women's Studies - General
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