To be a Sailor's Wife

The duality of maritime family life, the relationship between reconstruction and discourse and the symbolic status of the seafarerâ (TM)s wife are at the core of this book, which brings maritime womenâ (TM)s experiences to the fore, widening the perspective of maritime history. Based on the collected life stories of seafarersâ (TM) wives from the Ã...land Islands in Baltic Sea, Hanna Hagmark-Cooper draws attention to the cyclical nature of maritime family life and to the seafarersâ (TM) wivesâ (TM) perception of leading two parallel lives: one when they are on their own and one with their husbands at home. The author considers how discourses change over time and colour narratives, and she investigates the womenâ (TM)s attitudes to the myths surrounding the image of the seafarerâ (TM)s wife.