The 2 Notorious Female Pirates Who Fought Brutally, Ruthlessly, and Sometimes Topless

But it’s also as good a time as any to celebrate Women’s History Month by spotlighting some of the worst-behaved women in ...
New York Post

Women pirates were just as ruthless and cunning as the men

In 1720, two women — Anne Bonny and Mary Read — sailed together, enjoying a brief period as two of the fiercest pirates on the seas. After Read fell in love with a fellow pirate, he angered another ...
SF Station

Laura Sook Duncombe: Pirate Women

Laura Sook Duncombe discusses her new book, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas. Praise for Pirate Women “Thoroughly researched and enthrallingly written, ...
WBUR

Real ‘Pirate Women’ On The High Seas Of Old

As long as there have been ships sailing the seas, there have been pirates. Brazen, fierce, fearless thieves. Captain Hook, Black Beard, Captain Jack Sparrow. But men were not the only swashbucklers.
Los Angeles Times

Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean to no longer include auction scene selling women

A scene that depicts women on the auction block apparently has no place in a Disneyland ride, even if the attraction is meant to depict the violence, debauchery and misogyny of a pirate’s life. When ...
WBUR

Real ‘Pirate Women’ On The High Seas Of Old

As long as there have been ships sailing the seas, there have been pirates. Brazen, fierce, fearless thieves. Captain Hook, Black Beard, Captain Jack Sparrow. But men were not the only swashbucklers.