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“A Man for Strength and a Woman for Good Looks”: Fishy Feminism and the Schooners of Gloucester

Alison Glassie
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2024) 97 (4): 577–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_01050
Published: 01 December 2024
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Abstract
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Gloucester's fishing schooners bridged masculinized and feminized labor and were central to negotiations about industry risk. Reading these vessels alongside literature, newspapers, and art, I argue that their complex cultural position is legible in their design and in constructions of their gender.
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