1st Edition
Women and Ports Yearbook of Women’s History 43
Editorial
Women & ports: Re-evaluating a gendered space
Irene B. Jacobs
Part I Representation of women
Onlookers or participants? Representations of women on Dutch maritime paintings in the Age of Sail
Suze Zijlstra
Part II Women in shipbuilding
Maritime matriarchs? Navigating women’s work in Amsterdam’s private shipyards 1600-1800
Charlotte Jarvis
Made fast to the wharf: Women and wharf ownership in Colonial America, 1700-1775
Kim Todt
Weaving stories: Gender, labour and memory in East German shipbuilding through an autoethnographic lens
Nora Mariella Küttel
Part III Female entrepreneurs in the harbour
Amsterdamse gasterijhoudsters: Vrouwen in de maritieme huisvestingssector, 1636-1665
Jirsi Reinders, Mark Ponte, en Gerhard de Kok
Navigating legality: Women’s labour in the port of Genoa in the eighteenth century
Francesca Ferrando
Challenging gendered stigmas of boarding houses: The role of Portuguese boarding house keepers in Transatlantic labour migration and sailor recruitment in New Bedford (1850–1900)
Anne-Sophie Coudray
Female entrepreneurship in the Reposaari seaport community: The port as an enabler
Sanna Kuusikari
Part IV The port as a gendered space
Drawing through the boys’ book: Illustrating women’s activities in Curaçao’s Unión General de Trabajadores, 1929
Thomas van Gaalen
Empire and gender in the ‘Navy City’: Constructions of masculinity and femininity in Wilhelmshaven around 1900
Leon Biela
Biography
Irene Jacobs, Kirsten Kamphuis, Claudia Hacke, Charlotte Meijer, Marleen Reichgelt, Iris van der Zande
