Abstract
Reflects on an experience by a woman chaplain who worked for a summer at the Seamen's Church Institute in New York and New Jersey. First she experienced humiliation, rejection, sexist sterotypes. Later she wrestled with the tension of being a woman in a male dominated dock area. The world aboard ship presented a more polite yet equally difficult situation. Shares several vignettes of shipboard encounters.
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