Gender and the sea

This blog looks at maritime history from a different perspective. A ship is not just a ship. The sea is not just the sea. Using a cultural studies approach, this blog explores the impact of women, LGBT+ people, working-class people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds, on the sea and shipping. And it questions the ways that the sea and ships in turn affect such people's lives and mobility.

Friday, 16 May 2025

Celebrating women who map the world's oceans

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  World Ocean Day, June 7. Despite all the gendered (and racist) obstacles, women cartographers of the world's oceans have indeed made a...
Sunday, 9 February 2025

The gloryhole queens' heroes: US maritime union activism 1930-1955

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LGBT+ seafarers in UK really have no maritime union heroes. I've looked hard.  By contrast, in the US the National Union of Cooks and St...
Friday, 31 January 2025

She put on his sailor gear: Hetty King, male impersonator.

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It's the way she handles her pipe and acts like a jaunty Jack Tar - even when pregnant - that gets me.  And the fact that male seafarers...
Sunday, 15 December 2024

Flying Angel Xmas cheer: trans at Vindi, 1951.

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R esearching gender and the sea - at the moment through Mission to Seafarers archives - I keep finding the ways that this Protestant charity...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Selina’s troubled Indian voyages

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By guest contributor Paul Martinovich I'm delighted that  museologist and author  Paul Martinovich has agreed to share his knowledge and...
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Dr Jo Stanley, FRHistS.
I'm a writer, who also works creatively with life histories, e.g. making plays, exhibitions, digital animations. Telling diverse stories of maritime life is crucial to me. Currently I'm Research Fellow at the University of Hull's Blaydes Maritime Centre and at Liverpool John Moores University. Cross-fertilising is my pleasure, so I collaborate with TV companies, museums and community initiatives
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