Gender, Emotion, Work and Travel

Women Transport Workers and Passengers, Past and Present, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, London, June 22-23 2007

Bibliographic Data

ID4494069
AuthorsJ Stanley (0000-0002-8572-1047), Jennifer Tehan Stanley (0000-0003-2297-9750, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume65
Issue1
Pages277-279
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbn018
OpenAlexW2764406673
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Transport historiography, like train spotting, is not much a place of petticoats or critiques of patriarchy. So this was a most welcome foray into the history of women and the operations of gender on the sea, on trains, planes, buses, and in borderlands such as dockyards and harbours. The two-day event that took women's competence absolutely for granted was held, ironically, in the baroque Old Royal Naval College, Wren's Versailles-on-Thames and hegemonic mainstay of the dominance of the seas by privileged British males. How would antique admirals have coped with this absolute ignoring of sea-skills, wardroom etiquette and the defence of the realm within their portals? The conference, complete with sunshine and outdoor incidental music, was organized by Sarah Palmer, Maggie Walsh (who co-organized the seminal Transporting Gender conference at the National Railway Museum in 2000 and edited the special gender issue of Journal of Transport History, 23: 1, March 2002), and Minghua Zhao. Around forty people gathered, a number of them, such as Sari Mäenpää and Lisa Norling, from overseas.

Archaeology · Borough · Greenwich · Hegemony · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law

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