Mermaids in History: Engendering Maritime Labour and Business History, 1700–1900 / edited by Erica Mezzoli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mezzoli, Erica, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Brill's Studies in Maritime History ; 20

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early Modern History.

Economic history.

History.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims to “defamiliarise” the economic and social maritime history of Europe and North America by revealing women’s roles and multifaceted contributions in the male-dominated maritime economic arena during industrial capitalist modernity. By questioning the “separated spheres” paradigm, the chapters in this volume highlight the intricate and “illogical” relation between women as economic actors and (maritime) capitalism and modernity. Far from being a clear-cut and linear trajectory, this relationship is rather outlined as a layered dialectical relationship that simultaneously considers the interaction of forms of oppression and liberation. Contributors are: Paola Avallone, Helen Berry, Justine Cousin, Ariana Domínguez García, John Odin Jensen, Kathy S. Mason, Erica Mezzoli, Antònia Morey, Luisa Maria Muñoz Abeledo, Tomas Nilson, Oskar Opassi, Raffaella Salvemini, Daniel J. Albero Santacreu, Andreu Seguí, and Jo Stanley.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Erica Mezzoli

Part 1 On-Shore

1 From Land to Sea: Management of Wealth by Women between Theory and Practice in the Kingdom of Naples (18th–19th Centuries)

Paola Avallone and Raffaella Salvemini

2 Amphibious Economies: “Bum Boat” Women and the Supply of Goods and Services to Ordinary Seamen of the British Royal Navy, 1770–1830

Helen Berry

3 A Woman’s Place Was in the Lighthouse: Female Lighthouse Keepers on the U.S. Great Lakes during the Victorian Era

Kathy S. Mason

4 Labour Market Participation of Balearic Seafaring Communities’ Women in the Early 20th Century: between Official Absence and Informal Presence

Andreu Seguí and Antònia Morey

Part 2 Fish-Fags

5 Gender and Labour Markets in the Spanish Fish-Canning Sector (1880–1960)

Luisa Maria Muñoz Abeledo

6 Can a Can Empower? Female Workers at Izola’s (Slovenia) Delamaris Fish Canning Factory, 1960s–1990s

Oskar Opassi

7 Going to Sea Inland: Fishwomen’s Social Capital in Contemporary Fishing Communities of Mallorca (Spain)

Ariana Domínguez García and Daniel J. Albero Santacreu

Part 3 Off-Shore

8 The Labours of Lydia Dale: Domestic Labour on Ships and on Shore in the Industrialising Great Lakes of North America

John Odin Jensen

9 Titanic Stewardesses across Edwardian Era Gender Roles

Justine Cousin

10 “In this Woman’s Praises”: Female Maritime Labour Aboard in the North-Eastern Adriatic Straddling the Two World Wars

11 “Invading” Dionysian Ships: Women’s Advent/Gay Stewards’ Loss. Gender and Sex at Sea in the 1970s

Jo Stanley

12 “Hard Work and Sweet Love”: Identity, Norm Deviance, and Sense of Belonging among Stewardesses on the Swedish America Line (SAL), 1962–75

Tomas Nilson

Conclusion

Index of Places.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-74414-2

9789004744141

OCLC:

1561175396

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004744141 DOI