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• Anne Bonny

  good way but they can also be viewed as distractions. Rediker also talks about the harsh attitude of males pirates towards women, which is one of the reasons why so few women actually appeared on pirate ships during the eighteenth century. He also notes that Read and Bonny were brought up in a harsh environment that forced them to become determined and strong. They represented strength and were highly celebrated by lower class women, which I find interesting because it shows class solidarity and...

• Mary Read and Anne Bonny

  One of Rediker's insights about piracy describes how sailors saw women as both a fantasy and a threat at the same time: “Any sailors saw women as objects of fantasy and adoration but also as sources of bad luck or, worse, dangerous sources of conflict, potential breaches in the male order of seagoing solidarity” (Rediker 111). I find this insight interesting because it shows that women have the power to influence...