At Home Afloat by Nancy Pagh

At Home Afloat by Nancy Pagh

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At Home Afloat by Nancy Pagh

Considering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways that gender influences the roles women play at sea, the spaces they occupy on boats, and the language they use to describe their experiences, their natural surroundings, and their contact with Native peoples.

Unique features of this book include its interdisciplinary nature and its combination of scholarly information and a style that general readers will appreciate. The text is engaging but also serves to make fresh and relevant links between scholarship in diverse areas of inquiry; for example, Western Canadian and American history, feminist geography, post-colonial theory, and women and environments.

NANCY PAGH was born and raised on Fidalgo Island in Anacortes, Washington. Before earning Master's degrees in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia, she worked in the scientific publications unit of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Seattle. She teaches English and Canadian Studies at Western Washington University and lives in Bellingham.At Home Afloat, her study of women's travel language at sea, was co-published in 2001 by the University of Idaho Press and the University of Calgary Press.No Sweeter Fat is her first collection of poems.
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ISBN 13 9780893012533
ISBN 10 089301253X
Title At Home Afloat
Author Nancy Pagh
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University Press of Idaho
Year published 2001-01-01
Number of pages 179
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