woman pirate

Is there such a thing as a woman pirate?

Trials for women pirates were not uniform in sentencing and punishment.

A TV documentary about the history of women pirates.

Jo Stanley is a writer and feminist historian, currently working on women pirates.

Not women pirates, certainly?

We'll establish her fame asthe ruthless woman pirate, along with Mrs Bullock, once sheis sure which side a man's heart beats.

About five months later, the famous woman pirate Mary Read died in the Jamaican prison in Port Royal.

His boredom ends with the appearance in Sukhmet of Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a woman pirate whom he had known in his Barachan days.

Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger With Ulrike Klausmann und Marion Meinzerin.

No man can sail the Seven Seas without hearing Helen Tavrel's name, and, to the best of my knowledge, she is the only woman pirate now roving the Caribees.

Jo Stanley's edited collection (1995) Bold in Her Breeches:Women Pirates across the Ages is listed as the starting point for the study of women and piracy.

Loudly echoing yips of pleasure showed how thoroughly the women pirates relished a comeuppance they must have long yearned for, breaking a troublesome alliance and the last restraint of law.

He skirted the woods and crossed Pirate's Field, so called because local legend said the famed woman pirate, Anne Bonney, had once landed there with her gang of cutthroats.

Patterson pointed out that both books claimed to be non-fiction and that the name belonged to a real person; thus, neither the fact of a woman pirate nor her name could be copyrighted.

Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, Gabriel Kuhn: Women pirates and the politics of the Jolly Roger Black Rose Books (1997)

Her two newest books, Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World (Charlesbridge) and Naming Liberty (Philomel), display a mastery of both fiction and nonfiction.

Elizabeth instantly rescinds Bingham's royal commission to Asia and instead names him Lord Governor of Ireland, with simple instructions: quell the Irish rebellion and kill this woman pirate.

By the end of 1990s much of the work in Pirate studies, Pennell notes, could be grouped under three headings: the economics of piracy, the political and ideological importance of piracy, and women pirates.

Thirteen swashbuckling female pirates leap from the pages of Sea Queens, which presents real women pirates as only Yolen can--with plenty of gusto and just enough blood and guts to suit kids ages 9-12.

The "mysterious woman pirate chief," Lai Choi San, is widely believed to be the source inspiration for the character of the Dragon Lady, the oriental "femme fatale" in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates.

Caniff's biographer R. C. Harvey suggests that Patterson had been reading about women pirates in one of two books (or both) published a short time earlier: I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko Lilius and Vampires of the Chinese Coast by Bok (pseudonym for unknown).