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Seawomen of Iceland : survival on the edge / Margaret Willson.
Lippincott Library HD6073.F672 I739 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willson, Margaret, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women fishers--Iceland.
- Women fishers.
- Women fish trade workers--Iceland.
- Women fish trade workers.
- Women in fisheries--Iceland.
- Women in fisheries.
- Women--Iceland--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Iceland.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 274 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1 Survival on the Edge: A Hidden History 23
- 2 In Our Blood: A Lineage of Sea Knowledge 53
- 3 The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Seawomen and the Rise of Hags, Trolls, and Whores 81
- 4 Endurance: Why Do These Women Still Go to Sea? 113
- 5 The Sea's Siren Call: And the Jobs Seawomen Take in Reply 139
- 6 A Balance of Being: Ship Society 165
- 7 Paying to See the Stars: A New Kind of Survival 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295995502
- 0295995505
- OCLC:
- 933273610
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