The authors draw on a wide range of source material including diaries, logbooks, songs, poetry, fiction, news, to show how the great age of sea travel created gender expectations of sailors leading their rigorous life at sea while stoic women waited for them patiently on land. They also show evidence that defies this traditional view, from the role of captains' wives on board to women pirates and women who dressed and worked as men on ships. They also explore the relationship between gender and its connection to race for the African American and other seamen in both the American and British merchant marine. Contributors include Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to the editors. Very Good condition. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996. Paper. USED. &30.00