At home afloat : women on the waters of the Pacific Northwest / Nancy Pagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pagh, Nancy, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and the sea--Northwest, Pacific.

Women and the sea.

Seafaring life--Northwest, Pacific.

Seafaring life.

Boats and boating--Northwest, Pacific.

Boats and boating.

Sex role--Northwest, Pacific.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xix, 179 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Calgary : University of Calgary Press ; Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, [2001]

Summary:

Considering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways that gender influences the roles that women play at sea, the spaces they occupy on boats, and the language they use to describe their experiences, their natural surroundings, and their contacts with Native peoples.

Nancy Pagh, an accomplished marine tourist and scholar, offers an engaging text that makes fresh and relevant links between diverse areas of inquiry, for example, Western Canadian and American history, feminist geography, post-colonial theory, and women and environments. She seamlessly integrates her own personal narrative into the text and beautifully evokes the complexity and singular qualities of Northwest Coast geography and ecology.

Contents:

Introduction: At Home Afloat xi

Chapter 1 Northwest Coast Marine Tourism: A Contextual History 1

Gender and Regional Identity 3

Cruising and Steam Beginnings 7

Steam Tourism 14

The Gas Engine and Recreational Boating 20

Homemaking Tourists 30

Chapter 2 Space for the Mate: Superstition, Ritual, and a Woman's Place 35

Space and Gender Politics 36

Floating Worlds 39

Women and Cruising Literature 49

Women Boating the Northwest Coast 60

Three Pleasure Craft Accounts 64

Three Work Boat Accounts 73

Chapter 3 Imaginary Indians: Feminine Discourse and Colonialism Afloat 85

Theorizing Colonial Women's Travel Writing 87

Contacts 90

Counterfeit Ladies 94

The Victorian Cult of the Home 102

At Home in the Company of Strangers 104

A Sea Change 107

Chapter 4 "Getting Our Dresses Wet": Women, Girls, and the Natural Environment 117

Home/Nature/Woman 119

Indescribable Landscapes 125

Collectable Nature 132

"An Atavistic Female Instinct" 137

Daughters of the Coast 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index.

ISBN:

1552380289

OCLC:

45224628