Yemaya Recommends: The Island of sea women: A novel
The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See, 2019, 384 pages, Simon & Schuster Ltd, New York,, ISBN: 978 1 5011 54867
“Every woman who enters the sea, carries a coffin on her back. In this undersea world we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing between life and death every day.” Sun-Sil, Chief Haenyo of the diving collective in Hado, Jeju, speaks these words while preparing Young-Sook and her diving partner Mi-Ja as they take their first dive as Hagun(baby divers) with their collective.
Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
Issue: 65
Page range: 26
Author: Vishakha Gupta
Organization: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Year: 2022
Type: Newsletter article
Full text available at: https://www.icsf.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Yemaya_65_Yemaya-Recomends_Vishakha-Gupta.pdf
Content language: English