Co‐venturing Consumers ‘Travel Back’: Ships' Stewardesses and Their Female Passengers, 1919–55Footnote1

1. This article was originally a paper for the Gender, Emotion, Work and Travel: Women Transport Workers and Passengers, Past and Present conference, 22–23 June 2007, University of Greenwich, UK. I thank Drew Whitlegg and the participants at the Institute for Railway Studies and Transport History Seminar, October 2007, for their thoughts, which have further shaped this paper, as well as my anonymous referees.

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