Mermaids in History: Engendering Maritime Labour and Business History, 1700-1900

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-52156-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Maritime History

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, John O. Jensen, Kathy Mason, Erica Mezzoli, Antònia Morey Tous, Luisa Maria Muñoz Abeledo, Tomas Nilson, Oskar Opassi, Raffaella Salvemini, Daniel Albero Santacreu, Andreu Seguí Beltrán, and Jo Stanley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mezzoli, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Mezzoli holds a Ph.D. in East European history from the University of Trieste (2011). Her research interests include gender, economic, social, and labour history from early modern to modern times.