Article ID: CBB001550448

Navigating Mobility: Gender, Class, and Space at Sea, 1760--1810 (2014)

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This article examines the relationship between gender, class, & space during the closing decades of the “Age of Sail” (1760--1810). Using onboard diaries of male and female Quaker itinerant ministers, it explores the relationships between cabin and steerage passengers as well as those between passengers, captain, and crew. It argues that many passengers attempted to recreate the gendered and classed divisions observed on land as a way of engineering stability and security---two feelings lost to the disorientation of a transatlantic voyage. Thus, far from being a space of exception, life at sea proved to replicate and reinforce the social space of land.

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Authors & Contributors
Ausejo Martínez, Elena
Bennett, Jim
Cantor, Geoffrey N.
Cox, Robert S.
Hicks, Robert D.
Irby-Massie, Georgia L.
Journals
Economic History Review
British Journal for the History of Science
Environment and History
History of Education
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Mariner's Mirror
Publishers
Oxford University Press
English Heritage
Johns Hopkins University Press
L'Erma di Bretschneider
Naval Institute Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Sailing ships
Navigation
Quakers and Quakerism
Technology
Ships and shipbuilding
Travel; exploration
People
Bentham, Samuel
Franklin, Benjamin
Hack, Maria
Maudslay, Henry
Telford, Thomas
Wakefield, Priscilla
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Netherlands
Mediterranean region
England
Atlantic Ocean
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
Great Britain. Royal Navy
United States Navy
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