Female Tars by Suzanne J Stark

Female Tars by Suzanne J Stark

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Summary

Studies the roles of women who lived and worked on British warships in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Stark investigates the Royal Navy's custom of letting prostitutes live with crews in port, as well as the wives who chose to live and fight beside their men, sometimes in male disguise.

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Female Tars by Suzanne J Stark

Provides an in-depth study of the women who lived and worked on British warships of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The author investigates the custom of allowing prostitutes to live with the crews of warships in port and why the Royal Navy unofficially condoned the practice. She offers accounts of the wives of warrant officers and seaman who spent years at sea living - and fighting - beside their men without pay or even food rations and of the women in disguise who actually served as seaman or marines.
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ISBN 13 9780712666602
ISBN 10 0712666605
Title Female Tars
Author Suzanne J Stark
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1998-05-07
Number of pages 224
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