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Women Pirates: And the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel kuhn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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There have always been women among pirates and sea robbers. Metaphors of mysterious and destructive femininity may have perennially been assigned to the sea and its dangers, but the real women who sailed on ships steered them, sank with them, commanded them, even commandeered them have been ignored by a history written by and for patriarchal men. Ample evidence of women pirates and even feminine piracy nonetheless abounds: beginning with ancient legends of Amazon sailors in several cultural traditions, and continuing uninterrupted through a wealth of confirmed historical figures, down to the present. Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger is an account of piracy through three millennia, in histories of women and men sailing on four seas: the Chinese Straits, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. Writing with passion and humour, but without romanticizing, or ignoring the unsavoury side of some of their heroines, the authors turn history on its head. Nor do they forget the practical details, even including genuine recipes for shark and other delights. The volume is introduced by Gabriel Kuhn's essay on anarchism and piracy, "Under the Death's Head." Cons

Who reads Women Pirates: And the Politics of the Jolly Roger?

Author

Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel kuhn

Publisher

Black Rose Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551640587

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, True Crime, Crime

Rating

3.63 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14