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3 Seafaring Women Employees: 'Masculine' Work

This section is a broad and problematic one, because sometimes women on non-passengers vessels might also do feminine work sometimes.

A. Deck and engineering work

Birkett, D. (1992) Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool. A Woman at Sea in a Man’s World. London: Gollancz. ISBN 0575056959.

Captain, D., Foster, J. (1998) The Captain’s a Woman. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501645.

Drummond, C. (1999) The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer. London: Institute of Marine Engineers. ISBN 1902536258.
 
 

Gwin, L. (1982) Going Overboard: The Onliest Little Woman in the Offshore Oilfields. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0670343609.

Mahon. J. (1995) Kate Tyrell, ‘Lady Mariner’. Dublin: Basement Press. ISBN 1855941406.
B. Piracy

Chambers, A. (1979) Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. ISBN 0905473310 (Alternately, Merlin Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0863276318).

Fairburn, E. (1985) The White Horse. Dublin: Wolfhound Press

Klausmann, U., Meinzerin, M., Kuhn, G. (Translator Levis, N.) (1997) Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger. London: Back Rose. ISBN 1551640589.

MacLeod, A. (1996) The Changeling. London: Macmillan.

Paravisini-Gebert, L. (2001) 'Cross-Dressing on the Margins of Empire: Women Pirates and the Narrative of the Caribbean'. In: Paravisini-Gebert, L. Romero-Cesaro, I. Women at Sea. pp59-98. ISBN 0312219962.
 

Rediker, M. (1996) 'Liberty Beneath the Jolly Roger: the Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates'. In: Creighton, M., Norling, L. (eds) Iron Men, Wooden Women. op cit. pp1-33. ISBN 0801851602.

Stanley, J. (ed) (1995) Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages. London: Pandora/Rivers Oram. ISBN 0044408927.

Stanley, J. (ed) (2000) 'The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp, and the Woman in Between: Myself as Pirate'. In: Polkey, P. (ed). Women’s Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0312223528.
C. Fishing

Atkinson, C., Jacobs, S. E., Porter, M.A. (1989) Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0295968400.

Dickinson, M. (1999) The Fisher Lass. London: Pan. ISBN 0330376853.

De Santis, M. (1984) Neptune's Apprentice: Adventures of a Commercial Fisherwoman. Novato, California: Presidio. ISBN 089141200X.

Fields, L.L. (1997) The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell their Stories. Urbana, and Chicago: University of Illinois. ISBN 0252022203.

Jensen, V. (1995) Saltwater Women at Work. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 1550544365.

 
 
 

Lazenby, C., Lazenby, J. (eds) (2000) Deep Sea Voices: Recollections of Women in Our Fishing Communities. Gloucester: Tempus. ISBN 075241836X.

Nadel-Klein, J., Davis, D.L. (1988) To Work and To Weep: Women in Fishing Economies. Social and Economic Papers Number 18. Newfoundland: Memorial University. ISBN 0919666604.

Oakley, B. A. (1996) Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press.