Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger

by Ulrike Klausman, Marion Meinzerin, Gabriel Kuhn, Nicholas Levis (Translator)

Overview

An account of piracy through three millennia, in histories of women and men sailing on four seas: t he Chinese Straits, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Carribean. The volume is introduced by Gabriel Kuhn's essay, on anarchism and piracy, "Under the Death's Head".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551640594
Publisher:	Black Rose Books
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.62(h) x 0.96(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Rhine Pirates in Cologne
The Woman and the Old Sea

I. China Sea
Introduction
Ch'iao K'uo Fu Jen: Women's Liberation in the Age of the Yellow Rose
Lady Ch'ing
From the Galley: Shark Fin Soup
Lotus Feet and Henpecked Husbands
In the Bias Bay
Lai Sho Sz'en
Linda: A Present Day Pirate

II. Mediterranean Sea
Introduction
Elissa: A Pirate Founds Carthage
Artemisia: Piracy at the Time of the Persian Wars
Teuta: An Illyrian Queen in the Sea Robber Wars
From the Galley: Grilled Moray
The Arabian Pirate Sida al Hurra
Madame de Fresne, or: How Did the Marquess Get on the Pirate Ship?

III. The Atlantic
On Dragon Ships: Viking Women
Jeanne de Montfort: The Flame
Jeanne de Clisson: The Lioness of Brittany
On the Trail of Folka ten Broke: The Riddle of Stortebeker's Wife
From the Galley: Labskaus Stew
Lady Killigrew
Grace O'Malley

IV. The Caribbean

The Golden Age of Piracy
Buccaneer Jacquotte Delahaye
Invitation to a Banquet on the Beach
Freebooter Anne Dieu-le-veut
Sea Princess Bartholomew Roberts: Was the "Most Successful" Pirate a Woman?
From the Galley: Piquant Shark Schnitzel
Anne Bonny
Mary Read
Love Among Women Pirates

Glossary
Bibliography

Life Under the Death's Head: Anarchism and Piracy by Gabriel Kuhn