Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger

by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, Marian Meinzerin, et al.

Book Overview

There have always been women among pirates and sea robbers. Metaphors of mysterious and destructive femininity may have perennially been assigned to the sea and its dangers, but the real women who sailed on ships steered them, sank with them, commanded them, even commandeered them have been ignored by a history written by and for patriarchal men. Ample evidence of women pirates and even feminine piracy nonetheless abounds: beginning with ancient legends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551640589
• ISBN13: 9781551640587
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"