Hey, This is not quite what you were asking about, but an interesting
person to chat to would be Lucy Delap at Cambridge (cc'd). She has been
working on the idea of "women and children first" in terms of sea accidents
etc and I'm sure would have lots to say...
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/delap.html Steve
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Dr Stephen Legg
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
Downing Place
Cambridge
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www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/legg/
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On Jan 12 2006, Emma Robinson wrote:
>Dear all
>
>I am a second-year PhD student at Royal Holloway College working on
>women's journeys on ocean liners and steam trains between 1870 and 1940. I
>am actually a historian, but hopefully non-geographers are allowed on this
>forum!
>
>I am working on a chapter on women's uses on the spaces of the ship and
>train - the compartments, berths, dining rooms etc and I am looking for
>secondary literature - the theory really - about the concept of 'space',
>especially relating to issues like public/private and liminal spaces. I
>haven't studied this before, but I think this may be a bit of a geography
>speciality. If anyone has any suggestions of articles, books, or journals
>I could find this sort of work in then I would be immensely grateful.
>
>Hope to hear from anyone really!
>
>Emma Robinson
>
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