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An important rereading of the veiling issue
The "headscarf issue" is a point of perennial debate in contemporary Turkey, the symbolic focal point for a key contest between opposing views of the place for public displays of Muslim piety and questions of state control versus individual choice. In the early nineties, when the Turkish version of this work was published, it was revolutionary: one of the first real attempts by a leftist, secular Turkish scholar to come to terms with the arguments posited by the Islamists.In the years that have passed, a particularly rich literature on Turkish Islamist movements has developed and, in some respects, Gole's work has become somewhat dated. Her lengthy treatment of the symbolism of women's liberation in Ottoman and then Kemalist reform (in her words, "the touchstone of Westernization") are excellent.Her work on Islamist conceptions of women's issues is still worth reading, but her research seems to have been limited to interviews with Islamist students and a perusal of the Islamist press.Gole is still worth reading, but articles by scholars such as Jenny White may be of greater value to the casual reader. Incomprehensible writing!!Zero communication skills!
Nilufer Gole is a professor of Sociology in an Istanbul University and a frequently quoted author in the Turkish and foreign press.The topic of this strangely named book, "The Forbidden Modern" being of great interest to me, I wanted to read her work.Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to understand the author's English and her ideas. She has invented new words that do not exist in the English language, and sounds like she is translating from one language to another which makes for a very painful reading.I also wanted to know more about her own personal feelings about the veiling issue since she is from the same "gender", "nationality", and possibly same "religion" as her subjects.But she never relaxes in the book and keeps struggling with big sounding but incomprehensible words, strange ideas, and thoughts.My recommendation to Ms. Gole would be to team up with an American or a British writer for her next project to make her ideas better understandable to the English speaking world.

Interesting
This is an interesting study of women's conditions in the most strictly secular country in the world. Even though the Turkish state and the majority of the Turkish people strongly oppose veiling and suchpseudo-religious attacks on women, there has always been a small group ofopportunists seeking to gain power by exploiting and misrepresentingreligion. The backwardness of the majority of Muslims outside of Turkeystrengthens the hands of religious demagogues within Turkey. So do thepolitical Islam of Iran and Arabia. Add to this the rapid pace ofindustrial development in Turkey and the consequent alienation of the ruralpopulation and you get an explosive mixture.This book gives aninteresting sociological analysis of these conflicts. Turkey (the mostsecular, democratic, European country) bordering the Middle East will nodoubt triumph over the past and present demogogues of pseudo-religion. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. Middle East - Turkey    3. Muslim women    4. Social Science    5. Social conditions    6. Sociology    7. Turkey    8. Women    9. Women in Islam    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Women's Studies - History    12. Feminism    13. Social Science / Women's Studies    14. Western philosophy, from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. Firearms owners    2. History    3. Miscellanea    4. Social History    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. United States    8. Women    9. Women outlaws    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Women's Studies - History    12. 20th century    13. Cultural studies    14. Social Science / Women's Studies    15. USA    16. Violence in society    17. Women's studies    18. c 1800 to c 1900    19. guns; firearms advertising; trapshooting; National Rifle Association (NRA); women's rights debates; citizenship; Patty Hearst; Annie Oakley; Ma Barker; Bonnie Parker; Clyde Barrow; Osa Johnson; Carolyn Chute; militias; Black Panthers; Symbionese Liberation Army; Pauline Cushman; Deborah Sampson; dime novels; Charles Wesley Alexander (Wesley Bradshaw); Martha Maxwell; women warriors; Civil War; Molly Pitcher; Sarah Emma Edmonds; Loreta Velazquez; Belle Boyd; E. D. E. N. Southworth; Plinky Topperwein; female outlaws; Belle Starr; Calamity Jane; Lillian Smith; Celia Cooney; gun molls; WACs; new left; underground newspapers; Sara Weaver; Elaine Brown; Assata Shakur   

Subjects:  1. Callaway County    2. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    4. Missouri    5. Self-Help    6. Slavery    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Southern States    10. Trials (Homicide)    11. Trials (Murder)    12. United States - 19th Century    13. Women's Studies - History    14. Biography: historical    15. Slavery & emancipation    16. Social Science / Women's Studies    17. Social history    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History - General History    3. History: American    4. United States - 20th Century    5. United States - 20th Century (1900-1945)    6. Women's Studies - History    7. American history    8. American history: from c 1900 -    9. USA   

Subjects:  1. Bible    2. Bible - Commentaries - Old Testament    3. Bible - Study - Old Testament    4. Bible - Topical Studies    5. Bible.    6. Criticism, interpretation, etc    7. Judges    8. O.T    9. O.T.    10. Old Testament - Single Book Studies    11. Religion    12. Religion - Biblical Studies    13. Women And Religion (General)    14. Women in the Bible    15. Women's Studies - History    16. Books of the Old Testament    17. Israel    18. Religion / Bible / Commentaries / General   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography And Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Historical - General    6. Historical - U.S.    7. Women    8. Women In The U.S.    9. Women's Studies - History    10. History / United States / General   

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Sets some of the rollicking best songs in context
These swashbuckling woman disguised as a man songs are some of the most fun to perform as they tell an unbeatable story. Dugaw puts the great number of them into the context of their times, analyzes them extensivelyand reviews them powerfully. The only thing missing is a CD where you canhear the ballads themselves. This book will inspire you tobegin yoursongquest for the ones you haven't heard yet.

Great source of ideas and insights
In her book "Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650 - 1850", Dianne Dugaw defines and analyses an area of folklore in the English speaking (and particularly singing) world. Ballads with titles like "The Captain of Love", "The Female Drummer", "Wounded Nancy's Return", "The Wandering Virgin", "The Lady Turned Soldier" and "The Female Rambling Sailor". Having gathered together something like 120 such songs she evaluates what they tell us of women and men, and the society they lived in. What a number of scholars and folklorists have tended to see as an expression of lonely male fantasy, Dianne Dugaw regards as evidence of lived reality. "The age in which the ballads flourished not only recognised in women but expected of them -- lower-class women in particular -- the same physical toughness and energy we find in the Female Warrior ... eighteenth-century women had good reason to engage in activities similar to those described in the ballads: leaving home and family, travelling alone, bearing arms, engaging in trickery, and surviving on their own by hook or by crook." Apart from pointing to the evidence of women's participation in all kinds of manual labour, in all kinds of sports including hunting and boxing, Dianne Dugaw also shows how great a part women played in the decentralised armies and navies of the eighteenth and even nineteenth century. She quotes from an account of the 1798 Battle of the Nile "Any information we got was from the boys and women who carried the powder. The women behaved as well as the men, and got a present for their bravery from the Grand Signor." She argues that the refusal of the Medal Committee to reward two women who claimedmedals for their part in the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar "is a fascinating corroboration of the widespread presence of women in the military ... In the Committee's words, "there were many women in the fleet equally useful, and it would leave the army exposed to innumerable applications." Dianne Dugaw also considers the fashion of cross-dressing and masquerade, the seventeenth and eighteenth century exploitation of "the transforming properties of apparel". It was a period of disguise, and not at all accidental that the Female Warrior ballads are so popular in a period of "pervasive fascination with cross-dressing". If the popularity of these ballads reached their peak at this time it is also not surprising that the Victorian era should see their gradual decline. As Dianne Dugaw explains "an agenda of centralization and reorganization transformed military life, creating in conjunction with an ascendant empire, the modern army and navy. Whatever unofficial structures and sanctions had left space in the system for women disappeared in this renovated war machine. In it, real-life Female Warriors became much less tolerated, much less possible." Coupled with that, and in the wake of the French Revolution, came the "campaigns to "civilize" the common people." Part of this reform movement was the "promulgation of female delicacy and passivity as an ideal." Deliberate action was also taken to replace the literature of the streets with other songs and stories, where heroines are "frail, long-suffering, innocent, faithful, forgiving." None of these manufactured heroines would appear "in male attire, taking over ships, reefing sails, and firing cannons." The two century tradition of Female Warrior was under attack. Warrior Women is a great source of ideas and insights and so wide-ranging that it is hard to do justice to. Certainly Dianne Dugaw shows how interestingly this group of songs speak to us across centuries of change. "Such is her success in masquerading that the ballads leave us with a world that is no longer -- if it ever was -- a transparent and uncomplicated place where "women" are women and "men" are men. Rather the Female Warrior ballads conjure up a world where, for all we know, the soldier boys next to us may not be boys at all... Epitomising both genders, she simultaneously destabilises the system which divides them... the Female Warrior enacts her heroism by rules which she ultimately contradicts. Looking like a man, acting like a man, being celebrated as a man, she is a perfect woman." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 18th Century English Poetry    2. Ballads, English    3. England    4. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    5. History and criticism    6. History: World    7. Literature - Classics / Criticism    8. Poetry    9. Popular literature    10. War poetry, English    11. Women In Literature    12. Women's Studies - History    13. English    14. Folk music    15. Poetry & poets    16. Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish    17. Women's studies    18. c 1600 to c 1700    19. c 1700 to c 1800    20. c 1800 to c 1900   

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Wonderful book
The only reason I picked this book up was because it was a required read for a nursing class - I'm so glad that it was. I had a great-uncle that passed away on the Bataan Death March - so this book really hit close to home. I am now an Army Nurse and share this book with those who come in under me. It's a great read and I highly recommend it!

Nurses are angels!
This book is excellent! It brings the reader into the minds and lives of the nurses who were trapped on Bataan during WWII. Besides being a moving story, it has great lessons that can be applied to life today. I think the greatest thing I took from this book, being a nurse myself, was that patients come first. These nurses cared so much for their patients that they sacrificed everything to care for them. It was very touching; a must read for anyone.

Not Forgotten
It's no secret that the Japanese held thousands of Allied military prisoners of war in the South Pacific during World War II. Everyone knows of The Bridge on the River Kwai and the Bataan Death March. The harsh treatment the captured men suffered still affects the way many view the Japanese sixty years on.
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Asia - General    3. History    4. History - Military / War    5. History: World    6. Medical care    7. Military - World War II    8. Military History - World War II    9. Philippines    10. Prisoners and prisons, Japanese    11. Prisoners of war    12. United States    13. Women In The Military    14. Women's Studies - History    15. World War, 1939-1945    16. History / Military / World War II   

Subjects:  1. Atlases    2. Atlases - General    3. Economic conditions    4. Maps    5. Reference    6. Social Science    7. Social conditions    8. Sociology    9. Sociology Of Women    10. Women    11. Women's Studies - General    12. Women's Studies - History    13. Reference / Atlases   

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Detailed historical examination of radium hazards
"The doctors tell me I will die, but I mustn't.I have too much to live for-- a husband who loves me and two children I adore.They say nothing can save me, nothing but a miracle." Ottawa native Catherine Donohue wrote those words and more from her bed to the Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Chicago in the mid-1930s.She asked for a novena to bring her a miracle.She had to write the words for she could not speak them.Her teeth and a large portion of her jawbone were gone.Cancer was eating away at her bone marrow.The doomed young mother weighed only 65 pounds. Catherine Donohue was a charter member of the nonexistent organization, "The Society of the Living Dead," so called because members had two things in common: all worked at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois and all eventually suffered an agonizing death from radium radiation poison. More than 30 of these area co-workers (among others in dialpainting plants across the country), each of whom painted a radium-laced solution onto clock faces, watch dials and military equipment so they would glow in the dark, found that the simple habit of licking their brushes into a fine point eventually gave them terminal head and bone cancer.The tragedy, which became a major news story of the 1930s, evolved to a classic text book workplace hazard case that continues to generate controversy and affects city residents in the 1990s. These luminous paint workers and their struggle to have their mysterious symptoms recognized as an industrial disease is told in finely researched detail within the new book, Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935 by Central Michigan University historian Claudia Clark. Besides the promise of decent work for decent pay, Clark writes, part of what must have made dial painting an attractive job was working with such a sensational product, glow-in-the-dark paint.Assured that the radium-laced compound was completely safe, even digestible, the young women painted their dress buttons, fingernails, eyelids and even their teeth for fun.When they went home from work, they thrilled their families and friends with glowing clothes, fingers and hair. The book explains that the greatest exposure to radium was in the mouth and jaw area of these women.Dialpainters were instructed in the technique of lippointing to perform their finely detailed work.Mixing the dry, luminous paint powder with paste and thinner, the workers drew their small brush to a point with their lips before dipping it in the paint, and then meticulously filled in the numbers or other marks on clockfaces or other equipment before repeating the process. In great minutiae, Clark retraces the steps that these dying dialpainters took to uncover exactly what was killing them in an era where most workers, especially women employees, had very little power.The author explains their frustration as they discovered alarming facts about the danger which were withheld by their employers, government officials and medical researchers who were just beginning to learn about radium poisoning. The famous scientist, Marie Curie, credited with the discovery of the element radium, died 100 years ago after long exposure to the new substance.However, Clark insists the pioneering Curie understood and accepted the risk of the working with the unknown, unlike the "radium girls" who were completely uninformed about the dangers and died long before the health problem was entirely recognized.. Well documented, the publication details the extensive efforts of the sick dialpainters and their families to obtainproper compensation for their medical bills and suffering.Clark chronicles how these brave, ordinary people were also instrumental in demanding reforms which changed an entire industry forever. This solemn book is important to Ottawa in that it reminds area residents that the "radium problem" was not solely a local situation.Other such factories existed in New Jersey and Connecticut whose workers experienced similar luminous paint poisoning problems.On the positive side, the radium cases sparked much needed legislation concerning occupational diseases and workers compensation laws throughout the country.Steve StoutUtica,Il

A "Glowing" Account of Women Struggling for Their Health
This book is fascinating--It is readable, non-technical, and covers an intriguing and little-known subject. It describes an episode of women's activism on health issues before activism was considered the proper province of women.During and after World War I, hundreds of women, mostly young and unmarried, were employed to paint the dials of watches with self-illuminating paint containing Radium.Some of the women began to fear for the job's effects on their health, but had great difficulty in getting any action taken.This book describes their efforts to have these hazards corrected, and the problems they had dealing with uncaring factory management, inept government officials, skeptical members of the medical community, and eventually with the courts. It is disturbing, yet fascinating!Highly recommended ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumers' leagues    2. Diseases    3. History    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    6. Radium paint    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Toxicology    10. United States    11. Watch dial painters    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Women's Studies - History    14. American history: from c 1900 -    15. Central government policies    16. First World War, 1914-1918    17. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    18. Occupational / industrial health & safety    19. Social Science / Women's Studies    20. USA    21. Women's studies    22. c 1900 - c 1914    23. public health; industrial disease; luminous paint; watch faces; instrument dials; radium poisoning; dialpainting; health and labor policy; Consumers' League   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History - General History    3. History: World    4. Holocaust    5. Jewish - General    6. Women's Studies - History    7. Europe    8. History / Holocaust    9. Jewish studies    10. Second World War, 1939-1945    11. The Holocaust    12. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. Home economics    4. Philosophy    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. United States    8. Women's Studies - General    9. Women's Studies - History    10. Social Science / Women's Studies   

Subjects:  1. Femmes fatales    2. Human Sexuality    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Sociology Of Women    6. Women's Studies - General    7. Women's Studies - History    8. World - General    9. Social Science / General   

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a time without a light for women, and all. dark and chaotic
i have to say the book is interesting. women are the subject of the book and it explains why they had to rebel against the society that they lived in .women in times past in mexico lived in such horror. the slavery, and the exploitation from the hacendados, the forced rape by the hacendados and forced by them to have sex with other workers if they had a lot of beauty (fullfigured-good bodies, nice faces) at the haciendas.the political struggle the women went thru to be in the political parties, and even in the parties political and attidue chaos occurred. Mexican history has been chaotic and dark and the women have suffered-poor mestiza, poor indian and poor creole. this is the majority of the population who live in mexico and who go against the limits of porfirio diaz and his army and administration.confessions of the PLM women who served in the party tell the reasons why they left the party.different parties, but the dream for women to have democracy in where they could vote, and work,have rights and get paid equally as men had to happen. very interesting. recommended to all readers of history. the book will have photos of Teresa Urrea, and of Ricardo Flores Magon, and Soldaderas (women soldiers) who fought in the revolution. books such as these have to be a must for all hispanic children in the nations high schools. Mexican history is not like many teachers lecture out there-all nice and sugarcoated. mexican history is dark , chaotic, disturbing memories; a time without a light ...but with hard work the struggle obstacle was overcomed by those who wanted to end the dictator rule of Mr. Porfirio Diaz. Porfirio Diaz is the dictator of the country who did not care of the poor at all in that time period. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History / Mexico    5. Interviews    6. Latin America - Mexico    7. Mexico    8. Sociology    9. Women in politics    10. Women revolutionaries    11. Women's Studies - History    12. Women's rights    13. Feminism    14. History Of Women (General)   

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Subjects:  1. General    2. History & Surveys - General    3. History: World    4. Marriage    5. Philosophy    6. Sociology    7. Women's Studies - History    8. History / General   

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Anyone but Fox. Please.
It is an insult to one of the greatest of the spiritual masters and moral theologians in the history of Christianity to have her work promoted and misrepresented by a disgrace like Matthew Fox, whom she would have condemned as a heretic had she known him.
Abysmal commentary, OK pictures
Fox's commentary paints Hildegard as a rather mushy New Age spiritualist.(Which she was NOT!) The book's only redeeming quality is it's large, full-color reproductions of her illuminated manuscripts.

The Cosmic Christ in Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
Both the quality illustrations and the text deeply affected me, introducing me to both the Cosmic Christ and to Hildegard's cosmology of the Universe.Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Mind & Spirit    2. Mysticism    3. New Age    4. New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit    5. Women's Studies - General    6. Women's Studies - History    7. Body, Mind & Spirit / Mysticism    8. Christian mysticism    9. Christian spirituality    10. Mind, body, spirit: mysticism & self-awareness    11. Women's studies   

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Elizabeth as supporting player
The name "Elizabethan" invokes a vision of an era of sumptuous dress, religious strife, European conflict, and the flourishing of the dramatic arts. The Virgin Queen is a study of the ruler for whom the time is named, and her rule, which lasted for an almost-unprecedented 45 years.
Brief Biography That Is To The Point
This book is a good general introduction to Queen Elizabeth.Hibbert always paints a portrait of his subject, rather than discussing every detail of the person's life.Since most biographers write too much, we should all be grateful to Hibbert.He does a great job of describing Queen Elizabeth's decisionmaking process, her interactions with her advisors, and her reluctance to marry.He also explains the religious issues that surrounded the time briefly yet thoughtfully.

a good read for those who are interested in Elizabeth I
This is a biography of Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen. And that's exactly what it is. Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry the VIII is a legend, which Mr. Hibbert attempts to address. Often, this is a dry and, at times, tedious read. However, the details of Elizabeth's physical appearance, politics, and idiosyncracies are extremely interesting. The author details life with Elizabeth and her court, including both of the Queen Marys, Robert Dudley, Sirs Walter Raleigh and William Cecil and others.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1533-1603    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Elizabeth    5. Elizabeth, 1558-1603    6. Great Britain    7. Historical - British    8. History    9. History: World    10. Queen of England    11. Queen of England,    12. Queens    13. Women's Studies - History    14. Biography: royalty   

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Insightful and Revealing
This is a must-read for anyone interested in getting a fuller history of tattooing.The book does an excellent, well-balanced job of weaving biographies and social commentary regarding tattoos and tattoo-ers.And it's a story that must, to be fully inclusive, tell of women's involvement in this art, both as tattoo-ers and tattoo-ees.I had no idea this art form went back so far as it does for western female tattoo afficionados. It's a fascinating story that's seldom told or discussed. It appears that nothing is held back in terms of the whys and hows that these women came to acquire their tattoos, or to have become tattoo-ers.And it's a great missing segment in women's history, and art history for that matter, that needs more exposure (no pun intended) to help dispell the myths and prejudices about women with tattoos. This is a great, ancient art form that deserves more expression, appreciation and respect by the general public, especially in the United States where folks are just too uptight and puritanical about this kind of art.

Interesting info on two fascinating subjects
Ok, I love women and I love tattoos.While my "woman" history is nobody's business but my own, I can say that I got my first tattoo at age 52 (8 years ago--you do the math) and now have a body full.Early on in my tat career, I devoured every book and mag I could find, looking for ideas (some would say"validation") and, frankly,got tired of the semi-salacious boob shots.I KNEW there was more to it than that (not that I mind boob shots, but that's another review)and this book really tells the story.While every woman under 40, and a good many over 50, that I meet has ink somewhere on her body these days, this book discusses the historical precedents in interesting and informative ways.It won't convert a "tattoo hater", and it won't be even remotely interesting to someone who isn't fascinated by tats, but those of us who are decorated MUST have this one in the library, betweenThe Tattooed Woman and Masters of Tattoo.

The Best Tattoo Book For Women
As a relatively newly tattooed woman, I have embraced the culture and am looking to learn more about it. This book showed me what it was like for women with tattoos through the ages.The book is extremely well written and researched and the photos are fabulous.The author goes into detail on the history of tattoos and the social stigmas attached to them as they relate to women - a fascinating read!If you are a woman who has tattoos or is thinking about getting one, I highly recommend this book.I work in an extremely conservative environment and was brought up to believe tattoos are evil and dirty, so I struggled with my decision to get my tattoos, but this book not only made me feel more comfortable with my decision, it helped me with new ideas for my backpiece :) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Human    2. Identity    3. Photoessays & Documentaries    4. Physiology    5. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Tattooing    9. Tattoos, Mehndi, & Body Painting, Etc.    10. Women    11. Women's Studies - General    12. Women's Studies - History    13. Women's studies   

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Hen Frigates
This is an outstanding non-fiction book so alive with detailed stories about women aboard ships that it reads like a novel.It discloses not only women's stories about long journeys, shipwrecks, and daily experiences on board, but how women served as navigators across seas around the world.A splendid source on 19th century sailing.

Interesting ride along......
"Hen Frigates" is such a specific book, one can hardly imagine the time and research it must have taken to pull it all together. Ms. Druett has compiled list after list, diary excerpt after diary excerpt etc. to transport us into days past. Even though the time periods vary with the womens accounts, the stories all seem to ring the same. Each wife suffered through the same torments of life on the sea, but also in time relished with her husband. This is an interesting fact as husbands could sometimes be away for three years at a time with ittle or no contact home. By allowing the wives to share in the shipping/whaling experience, their marriage became all the stronger, or all the weaker in some cases. It is so easy for we in the 21st century to take advantage of all the amenities we use in everyday life, but the brave women portrayed lived as the sailors lived...sparsely. Raising children is difficult enough on land, but to do it on a ship sailing the seven seas, must have proved to be near impossible at times. All in all, a very interesting book on a forgotten subject.

Interesting ride along......
"Hen Frigates" is such a specific book, one can hardly imagine the time and research it must have taken to pull it all together. Ms. Druett has compiled list after list, diary excerpt after diary excerpt etc. to transport us into days past. Even though the time periods vary with the womens accounts, the stories all seem to ring the same. Each wife suffered through the same torments of life on the sea, but also in time relished with her husband. This is an interesting fact as husbands could sometimes be away for three years at a time with ittle or no contact home. By allowing the wives to share in the shipping/whaling experience, their marriage became all the stronger, or all the weaker in some cases. It is so easy for we in the 21st century to take advantage of all the amenities we use in everyday life, but the brave women portrayed lived as the sailors lived...sparsely. Raising children is difficult enough on land, but to do it on a ship sailing the seven seas, must have proved to be near impossible at times. All in all, a very interesting book on a forgotten subject. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Maritime History    6. Modern - 19th Century    7. Sailing - Narratives    8. Ship captains' spouses    9. Women's Studies - General    10. Women's Studies - History    11. History / United States / 19th Century    12. Women's studies    13. World history: c 1750 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. 1706-1790    2. 18th century    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Franklin, Benjamin,    6. General    7. Historical - General    8. History - U.S.    9. Influence    10. Relations with women    11. Social conditions    12. United States    13. United States - 18th Century    14. Women    15. Women's Studies - General    16. Women's Studies - History    17. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    18. Feminism    19. USA