Conference organisers: Minghua Zhao (University of Greenwich) and Maggie Walsh (University of Nottingham) (Web)
Zeit: 22.-23.06.2007
Venue: University of Greenwich, UK
The final date for all bookings is 15 June 2007
This conference will examine issues for women transport workers and female passengers, from different modal, disciplinary and national perspectives and will discuss comparative themes that will illuminate gendered patterns in women’s lives. By initiating a gendered and emotional dimension to the discussion of travel and work, new ideas and approaches have the capacity to alter the face of both history and contemporary aspects of mobility. The keynote speaker is John Urry (Lancaster). Some money is available to support some of the costs for postgraduate attendance at the conference.
Programme and Details (Web)
Papers
– Valerie Burton: Tender and crank[y]: some observations about the anthropomorphisation of British merchant vessels toward encouraging a cross-cultural discussion of women’s work in a “Man’s World”
– Colin Divall: “You see, my husband’s so partial to a mantel-shelf”: the gendered construction of “safety” on Britain’s railways
– Helen Doe: Travelling by staying at home: cultural influences in nineteenth-century maritime communities
– Di Drummond: “Innocent railroad slaughter”: women, railway accidents and notions of the state and liberty in Victorian Britain and the USA
– Janis Jansz: Challenges and opportunities for the occupational safety and health for women who work in the Australian transport industry
– Astrid Kirchhof: Dreams on rails: the debate about migrating women and the founding of the Protestant Traveller’s Aid Society around 1900 in Germany. The example of Berlin
– Bente Knoll: Gendered travel and mobility surveys
– Ulrich Leifeld: Exotic smart and pretty girls or cheap workforce from the Far East? The changing role and identity of Asian female air crew members working for a Western airline
– Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds: “A question for the (train) ladies”: reflections of the public presentation of self in and beyond academia
– Sari Maenpaa: The ban on women from the ocean-going ships and development of passenger shipping in Finland from the early twentieth century onwards
– Helen Milne: Irish and West Indian newcomers: gender, ethnicity and urban space in 1950s and 1960s London
– Sowande Mustakeem: “The female… seeming to pine and waste, was sent to shore…”: black females and the emotional and psychological traumas of the Atlantic slave trade
– Lisa Norling: Gender, class and shipboard authority on the eighteenth-century Atlantic crossing: the passengers’ perspective
– Emma Robinson: Not yet a home: women passengers’ emotional constructions of transport spaces and interaction with female staff, c1870-c1940
– Lauren Rosewarne: The gendered journey: sex and captivity on public transport
– Joan Ryan: How women became part of the workforce of the Royal Naval Dockyards
– Barbara Schmucki: Gendered spaces- gendered places: women, urbantransport and walking in the nineteenth and twentieth century
– Francesca Setzu: Flight attendants in the photographic images of Alitalia
– Jo Stanley: Maid, warder, hostess and co-adventuring consumer: the main types of emotional relationships between stewardesses and their female passengers on sea voyages
– Bobbie Sullivan: Private jet cabin crew: an ethnographic perspective. Due to illness, Bobbie was unable to attend
– John Urry: Mobility, network capital and gender
– Drew Whitelegg: From “destination” to “post-destination” in the lives of airline cabin crew
– Helena Wojtczak: Railwaywomen: from exploited drudge in 1830 to train driver in the twenty-first century
