Pirate Women

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In the first ever Seven Seas history of the world s female buccaneers, Pirate Women The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside and sometimes in command of their male counterparts These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common a desire for freedom History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now Here are their stories, from ancient Norse princess Alfhild and warrior Rusla to Sayyida al Hurra of the Barbary corsairs from Grace O Malley, who terrorized shipping operations around the British Isles during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to Cheng I Sao, who commanded a fleet of four hundred ships off China in the early nineteenth century.Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the stories to the storytellers and mythmakers What biases and agendas motivated them What did they leave out Pirate Women explores why and how these stories are told and passed down, and how history changes depending on who is recording it It s the most comprehensive overview of women pirates in one volume and chock full of swashbuckling adventures that pull these unique women from the shadows into the spotlight that they deserve. New Read Books Pirate Women author Laura Sook Duncombe – kino-fada.fr I REALLY wanted to love this book, but I can t It reads like it s written by an average intelligence 15 year old high school student, peppered with cliches and tangents It s all over the place, and does not read like a nonfiction book should you know, with facts, details, and relevant information The author s passion to turn every pirate story into something about feminism is tiresome even to this outspoken, loud, nasty feminist It was an absolute struggle to get through this short book, I REALLY wanted to love this book, but I can t It reads like it s written by an average intelligence 15 year old high school student, peppered with cliches and tangents It s all over the place, and does not read like a nonfiction book should you know, with facts, details, and relevant information The author s passion to turn every pirate story into something about feminism is tiresome even to th...As a longtime pirate aficionado and an evenlongtime women s history aficionado, I was pretty stoked to find a copy of Pirate Women The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers who Ruled the Seven Seas at Porter Square Books this summer I d missed the author event, which I was bummed to find out about after the fact, but the book was signed, so I happily shelled out for the slim little purple hardcover.I had great hopes for learning a few new things when I brought this book to Maine last As a longtime pirate aficionado and an evenlongtime women s history aficionado, I was pretty stoked to find a copy of Pirate Women The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers who Ruled the Seven Seas at Porter Square Books this summer I d missed the author event, which I was bummed to find out about after the fact, but the book was signed, so I happily shelled out for the slim little purple hardcover.I had great hopes for learning a few new things when I brought this book to Maine last weekend, or at least to have some fun revisiting the things I already know Fifteen yea...Disappointed That s what I am right now.LADY PIRATES THAT COVER.And yet It was a slog to get through even being as short as it is More than giving accounts of the lives of these women or the legends of their lives for those there is no verifiable historical records blahblahblah it spent a lot of time on the men around them or the men who wrote the accounts and how they probably manipulated those accounts to their own purposes This could have been a really entertaining as well as informa Disappointed That s what I am right now.LADY PIRATES THAT COVER.And yet It was a slog to get through even being as short as it is More than giving accounts of the lives of these women or the legends of their lives for those there is no verifiable historical records blahblahblah it spent a lot of time on the men around them or the men who wrote the accounts and how they probably manipulat...This book is hard to rate I see a LOT of 2 star ratings on the front page here and I definitely agree with what they are saying, although I did manage to get enough enjoyment out of this to bump it up to 3 stars instead My main reason for doing that is because I DID learn a lot of cool things from this book and there is a lot of good information in here but it s so disorganized and buried in the author s varied ranting that it s kind of hard to find at times I did like the fact that she This book is hard to rate I see a LOT of 2 star ratings on the front page here and I definitely agree with what they are saying, although I did manage to get enough enjoyment out of this to bump it up to 3 stars instead My main reason for doing that is because I DID learn a lot of cool things from this book and there is a lot of good information in here but it s so disorganized and buried in the author s varied ranting that it s kind of hard to find at times I did like the fact that she wrote all the sections chronologically though, I hate when books like this skip around between time periods.Honestly I think the main problem here is that the author didn t have enough information for a full length book, but instead of just accepting that and writing a novella she decided to cram filler sections in everywhere to pad everything out This book could have been 100 pages shorter and it would have been much better I understand the need for SOME context into the times these women were...This was a short but hard to read book that belies its whimsical title and well designed book jacket I chose this book after the author s appearance on NPR s This American Life where she was interviewed about a specific Chinese pirate queen Based on the entertaining story she told on the radio show, I was expecting some informative and entertaining pirate yarns, but instead got a treatise on how there really aren t enough female pirate stories to tell For almost every instance of female pirac This was a short but hard to read book that belies its whimsical title and well designed book jacket I chose this book after the author s appearance on NPR s This American Life where she was interviewed about a specific Chinese pirate queen Based on the entertaining story she told on the radio show, I was expecting some informative and entertaining pirate yarns, but instead got a treatise on how there really aren t enough female pirate stories to tell For almost every instance of female piracy, the author tells us that we can t be sure they really existed, or that they were really pirates, or if they are real, the sources cannot be relied upon to be accurate or unbiased What we end up with is a disjointed mishmash of paragraphs that support any number of ideas Instead of focusing exclusively on the title subject Themes addressed include politics, feminism, cinematography, suffrage, methods of recording history, general crime, war, race relations, and immi...Fantastic I want movies tv shows about everyone of these women.I expected the book to be a series of short biographies of female pirates throughout history but Duncombe is instead as interested in the idea of female pirates in their respective cultural contexts as the women themselves The early chapters are surprisingly dull as Duncombe discusses Viking and Ottoman society with little attention to the female pirates of these time periods The book becomesdramatic during the Golden Age of Piracy as Anne Bonny and Mary Read are better documented than t I expected the book to be a series of short biographies of female pirates throughout history but Duncombe is instead as interested in the idea of female pirates in their respective cultural contexts as the women themselves The early chapters are surprisingly dull as Duncombe discusses Viking and Ottoman society with little attention to the female pirates of these time periods The book becomesdramatic during the Golden Age of Piracy as Anne Bonny and Mary Read are better documented than their predecessors The section of the 19th century discusses some fascinating and little known Australian and Canadian pirates as well as a fictional tale of a Canadian woman pirate that is often mistaken for hi...This isa book about the IDEA of female pirates My biggest gripe with this book is that it sells itself as a history of female pirates What it ends up being is a regurgitation of all the female pirates that MAY have existed, and many who most certainly did not which the author admits The only pirate I ve ever really known much about was Cheng I Sao, and even with her we don t know her real name or specific details of the beginning of end of her life I had the impression that the autho This isa book about the IDEA of female pirates My biggest gripe with this book is that it sells itself as a history of female pirates What it ends up being is a regurgitation of all the female pirates that MAY have existed, and many who most certainly did not which the author admits The only pirate I ve ever really known much about was Cheng I Sao, and even with her we don t know her real name or specific details of the beginni...

Pirate Women
  • 03 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 264 pages
  • 1613736010
  • Laura Sook Duncombe
  • Pirate Women