The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp and the Woman in Between: Myself as Pirate(ss)

  • Jo Stanley

Abstract

In writing a cultural history Bold in her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages (Stanley, 1996), I found that despite my denials of any desire to be a lethal robber, I actually wanted to be what a woman pirate symbolises. Through the lives of Ann Bonny, Mary Read, Granuaile and others, I was covertly exploring my boldness, sadism, propensity for outrage and appropriation. What does it mean to me to sail away and swashbuckle? To psychically pull on breeches when faced with an enemy? To admit/deny my desires to stay (safely) ashore and assured in my frocks?

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Western Metaphysic Enduring Split Feminist History Cutting Ability Photo Call 
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