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Papers by Jo Stanley

The Women's Review of Books, 1996

International Journal of Maritime History, 2005

sexual relationship. If the turnover of seafarers on merchant ships has become extremely high the... more sexual relationship. If the turnover of seafarers on merchant ships has become extremely high these last years, the turnover of women seafarers appears to be even higher. Yet women who managed to live through their first years on board will usually say that they have gained acceptance amongst their fellow seafarers. This often had meant being at least as tough and often a little better than most of their colleagues. Shipping companies which began to employ women in the rank of ship officer and of captain usually tend to do so again, and if they were worried about the ability of women to deal with multinational crews they usually found that they managed just as well if not better than their male colleagues.

Routledge eBooks, Oct 23, 2015

International Journal of Maritime History, 2009

International Journal of Maritime History, 2007

The film provides a basic introduction to types of woman seafarers already familiar to maritime h... more The film provides a basic introduction to types of woman seafarers already familiar to maritime historians the cross-dressing women who went to sea, female pirates, captain's wives and stewardesses. The film makers correctly point out that women's maritime careers were segregated into service jobs on passenger liners shortly after the first passenger liner crossed the Atlantic in 1838. Even today, most women on large passenger liners work in catering departments, though career progress has become much better, and the film introduces a chief steward who, a hundred years ago, could have never been a woman, at least not on a passenger liner. Nevertheless, while the film manages through interviews with contemporary seafarers to cover the most difficult issues that face woman seafarers, historians will find that the film offers only thin coverage on the history of seafaring women, despite the fact that many contemporary issues for women at sea have historic roots. Most interviewees claim that men onboard ships have demanded that women hide their femininity. Women are expected or forced to be masculine in order to survive. If they do not, they suffer sexual harassment and hostility. The interviewees expose severe sexual stalking and verbal abuse. One of the interviewees observes that sexual harassment is in fact based on fear because men are afraid of women and aim to control them through harassment. As one of the women claims, seafaring is not a job for weak women or for weak men. This DVD is political and thought-provoking. It has a clear agenda: to show that sexual harassment and occupational segregation, as well as gender discrimination, are still very much a reality in seafaring. These women have to deal with prejudiced working communities in isolated spaces and therefore have to prove themselves much more than men. Despite the fact that women have always been at sea, the segregation remains rigid. Most women still work in jobs which do not have much authority, at least not over men. Despite the shortage of women in top-level maritime jobs, the film concentrates on them, perhaps in order to empower women. Shipping Out shows that contemporary seafaring has very few jobs that require extreme physical strength and that therefore most jobs are perfectly suitable for women.

Gender, Place & Culture, 2017

History workshop journal, 2012

This conference had two foci: firstly the historical exploration of women and ‘othering’, and sec... more This conference had two foci: firstly the historical exploration of women and ‘othering’, and secondly inauguration of the Yorkshire Women’s History Network, twenty years after the founding of the national network. Many regions already have – or at some time have had – their own WHN networks. The Scottish, South West and Midlands networks, for example, continue to hold successful conferences. A Yorkshire network was attempted at Leeds University several years ago but it didn’t get off the ground. This time we definitely have lift-off in Yorkshire. Over thirty people attended the conference on this drizzly June day in Horsforth. It’s a picturesque cobbled small town lying between Leeds and Bradford. Built of once-golden millstone grit, the town grew to prominence after the railway station made commuting possible for wealthy mill-owners. And it still has a robust identity and local culture. As we arrived in the rain the annual fete was valiantly about to begin in the park that was formerly the grounds of grand Horsforth Hall, with its Japanese garden. In the twentieth century Leeds Trinity University College, just opposite, was a teachertraining college nestled among Victorian Scottish baronial villas amid woodland. Today it’s a large campus with very modern architecture, but still a surprising amount of woodland. Some of us who stepped into Leeds Trinity’s spaces were academics, maybe half were under thirty, and only one was a man. Many historians of women who would normally have been there were at ‘the other conference’ happening that day. This was on ‘The Aftermath of Suffrage: What Happened After the Vote Was Won?’ and took place at the University of Sheffield, just fifty-three kilometres away – stiff competition indeed. But the founding of a new network, plus the topic of othering, struck me as powerful reasons to choose the Horsforth conference.

Class Matters, 2005

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived among lions who had no time for the likes of her. Whe... more Once upon a time there was a girl who lived among lions who had no time for the likes of her. Whenever she put her head up they roared. She learned to lie low, low, low, and almost died of silence and starvation. Then she discovered there were girls there. Indeed, they ...

The Historian, 2018

Among the many fine contributions of Maimonidean scholarship, this new monograph stands out for i... more Among the many fine contributions of Maimonidean scholarship, this new monograph stands out for its fresh approach and promises to make a lasting impact on the field. In keeping with a growing scholarly trend, Mark Cohen's book situates Maimonides's work within the context of Egyptian and Mediterranean societies. But unlike those studies that examine Maimonides's writings within the framework of Arab thought or Islamic law, Maimonides and the Merchants focuses on the intersection of law and reality in the Mishneh Torah, arguing that Maimonides subtly yet substantively updated the Jewish legal apparatus in order to accommodate economic norms current among medieval Mediterranean traders, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Cohen draws from a wealth of Genizah documents, Gaonic responsa, and Islamic legal texts to illustrate the nature of the mercantile system that prevailed from at least the tenth century, known in some Gaonic sources as the "custom of the merchants" (hukm al-tujjâr). A key element of this system, generally known in Arabic as qirâd, was defined by its partnership structure, according to which a "passive" partner supplied the primary capital for the joint venture while an "active" partner supplied the labor in the form of travel and trade. The Arab qirâd bore some resemblance to a commercial partnership known in the Talmud as isqa, yet the qirâd differed in that only the silent partner bore any risk for financial loss. This was a distinct advantage in attracting active partners in a commercial network dominated by long-distance trade and, as such, was adopted by most Jewish traders between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, notwithstanding its deviation from Talmudic law. Another perceived advantage to this system was its relatively informal character, allowing partners to make arrangements on the basis of trust and business ties, without requiring contracts to formalize these far-flung and often fluctuating relationships. Both the system of Mediterranean trade and Maimonides's first-hand knowledge of it are well documented and have been known to scholars for decades. Yet Cohen is the first to leverage these historical data in order to examine how they served as a catalyst for legal change. He frames his study with the theoretical question posed by Alan Watson, as to whether legal codes may serve to update the law by closing the gap between conservative legal systems and shifting involvement in conversations about public health, medicine, and scientific motherhood that have been extensively demonstrated in the Arabic press of the era.

The Mariner's Mirror, 2017

Mobility in History, 2013

This is an innovative over-view of the relationship between sexual activity and transport/travel.... more This is an innovative over-view of the relationship between sexual activity and transport/travel. The article summarises the scholarly work completed since 1995 on sexualities' historical and changing interfaces with air, sea, rail and road transport, and mobilities. Mode by mode it highlights actual developments in transport and travel (such as airport porno-scanners, changes in cruise ship morality, and women-only carriages) as evidenced on the internet. And it remarks on the disjuncture between the high level of anecdotal and empirical evidence (especially web-based) about such developments and the lack of academic analyses of them. Programmatically, it points out where such analysis could be done and the main issues involved in such exploring. Key words: sex, transport, travel, mobility, gender

History Workshop Journal, 2006

This third International Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport... more This third International Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T 2 M) productively focused on that third and crucial 'T'word–tourism–in a three-day event encompassing nearly ninety papers.

History Workshop Journal, 1989

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE IN BARCELONA 'International Days for Peace, Freedom and Democracy&... more INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE IN BARCELONA 'International Days for Peace, Freedom and Democracy' 'Jornades Internationals per la Pau. la Uibertat i la democracia.' Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the farewell march of the International Brigade in Barcelona, Oct ...

The Women's Review of Books, 1996

International Journal of Maritime History, 2005

sexual relationship. If the turnover of seafarers on merchant ships has become extremely high the... more sexual relationship. If the turnover of seafarers on merchant ships has become extremely high these last years, the turnover of women seafarers appears to be even higher. Yet women who managed to live through their first years on board will usually say that they have gained acceptance amongst their fellow seafarers. This often had meant being at least as tough and often a little better than most of their colleagues. Shipping companies which began to employ women in the rank of ship officer and of captain usually tend to do so again, and if they were worried about the ability of women to deal with multinational crews they usually found that they managed just as well if not better than their male colleagues.

Routledge eBooks, Oct 23, 2015

International Journal of Maritime History, 2009

International Journal of Maritime History, 2007

The film provides a basic introduction to types of woman seafarers already familiar to maritime h... more The film provides a basic introduction to types of woman seafarers already familiar to maritime historians the cross-dressing women who went to sea, female pirates, captain's wives and stewardesses. The film makers correctly point out that women's maritime careers were segregated into service jobs on passenger liners shortly after the first passenger liner crossed the Atlantic in 1838. Even today, most women on large passenger liners work in catering departments, though career progress has become much better, and the film introduces a chief steward who, a hundred years ago, could have never been a woman, at least not on a passenger liner. Nevertheless, while the film manages through interviews with contemporary seafarers to cover the most difficult issues that face woman seafarers, historians will find that the film offers only thin coverage on the history of seafaring women, despite the fact that many contemporary issues for women at sea have historic roots. Most interviewees claim that men onboard ships have demanded that women hide their femininity. Women are expected or forced to be masculine in order to survive. If they do not, they suffer sexual harassment and hostility. The interviewees expose severe sexual stalking and verbal abuse. One of the interviewees observes that sexual harassment is in fact based on fear because men are afraid of women and aim to control them through harassment. As one of the women claims, seafaring is not a job for weak women or for weak men. This DVD is political and thought-provoking. It has a clear agenda: to show that sexual harassment and occupational segregation, as well as gender discrimination, are still very much a reality in seafaring. These women have to deal with prejudiced working communities in isolated spaces and therefore have to prove themselves much more than men. Despite the fact that women have always been at sea, the segregation remains rigid. Most women still work in jobs which do not have much authority, at least not over men. Despite the shortage of women in top-level maritime jobs, the film concentrates on them, perhaps in order to empower women. Shipping Out shows that contemporary seafaring has very few jobs that require extreme physical strength and that therefore most jobs are perfectly suitable for women.

Gender, Place & Culture, 2017

History workshop journal, 2012

This conference had two foci: firstly the historical exploration of women and ‘othering’, and sec... more This conference had two foci: firstly the historical exploration of women and ‘othering’, and secondly inauguration of the Yorkshire Women’s History Network, twenty years after the founding of the national network. Many regions already have – or at some time have had – their own WHN networks. The Scottish, South West and Midlands networks, for example, continue to hold successful conferences. A Yorkshire network was attempted at Leeds University several years ago but it didn’t get off the ground. This time we definitely have lift-off in Yorkshire. Over thirty people attended the conference on this drizzly June day in Horsforth. It’s a picturesque cobbled small town lying between Leeds and Bradford. Built of once-golden millstone grit, the town grew to prominence after the railway station made commuting possible for wealthy mill-owners. And it still has a robust identity and local culture. As we arrived in the rain the annual fete was valiantly about to begin in the park that was formerly the grounds of grand Horsforth Hall, with its Japanese garden. In the twentieth century Leeds Trinity University College, just opposite, was a teachertraining college nestled among Victorian Scottish baronial villas amid woodland. Today it’s a large campus with very modern architecture, but still a surprising amount of woodland. Some of us who stepped into Leeds Trinity’s spaces were academics, maybe half were under thirty, and only one was a man. Many historians of women who would normally have been there were at ‘the other conference’ happening that day. This was on ‘The Aftermath of Suffrage: What Happened After the Vote Was Won?’ and took place at the University of Sheffield, just fifty-three kilometres away – stiff competition indeed. But the founding of a new network, plus the topic of othering, struck me as powerful reasons to choose the Horsforth conference.

Class Matters, 2005

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived among lions who had no time for the likes of her. Whe... more Once upon a time there was a girl who lived among lions who had no time for the likes of her. Whenever she put her head up they roared. She learned to lie low, low, low, and almost died of silence and starvation. Then she discovered there were girls there. Indeed, they ...

The Historian, 2018

Among the many fine contributions of Maimonidean scholarship, this new monograph stands out for i... more Among the many fine contributions of Maimonidean scholarship, this new monograph stands out for its fresh approach and promises to make a lasting impact on the field. In keeping with a growing scholarly trend, Mark Cohen's book situates Maimonides's work within the context of Egyptian and Mediterranean societies. But unlike those studies that examine Maimonides's writings within the framework of Arab thought or Islamic law, Maimonides and the Merchants focuses on the intersection of law and reality in the Mishneh Torah, arguing that Maimonides subtly yet substantively updated the Jewish legal apparatus in order to accommodate economic norms current among medieval Mediterranean traders, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Cohen draws from a wealth of Genizah documents, Gaonic responsa, and Islamic legal texts to illustrate the nature of the mercantile system that prevailed from at least the tenth century, known in some Gaonic sources as the "custom of the merchants" (hukm al-tujjâr). A key element of this system, generally known in Arabic as qirâd, was defined by its partnership structure, according to which a "passive" partner supplied the primary capital for the joint venture while an "active" partner supplied the labor in the form of travel and trade. The Arab qirâd bore some resemblance to a commercial partnership known in the Talmud as isqa, yet the qirâd differed in that only the silent partner bore any risk for financial loss. This was a distinct advantage in attracting active partners in a commercial network dominated by long-distance trade and, as such, was adopted by most Jewish traders between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, notwithstanding its deviation from Talmudic law. Another perceived advantage to this system was its relatively informal character, allowing partners to make arrangements on the basis of trust and business ties, without requiring contracts to formalize these far-flung and often fluctuating relationships. Both the system of Mediterranean trade and Maimonides's first-hand knowledge of it are well documented and have been known to scholars for decades. Yet Cohen is the first to leverage these historical data in order to examine how they served as a catalyst for legal change. He frames his study with the theoretical question posed by Alan Watson, as to whether legal codes may serve to update the law by closing the gap between conservative legal systems and shifting involvement in conversations about public health, medicine, and scientific motherhood that have been extensively demonstrated in the Arabic press of the era.

The Mariner's Mirror, 2017

Mobility in History, 2013

This is an innovative over-view of the relationship between sexual activity and transport/travel.... more This is an innovative over-view of the relationship between sexual activity and transport/travel. The article summarises the scholarly work completed since 1995 on sexualities' historical and changing interfaces with air, sea, rail and road transport, and mobilities. Mode by mode it highlights actual developments in transport and travel (such as airport porno-scanners, changes in cruise ship morality, and women-only carriages) as evidenced on the internet. And it remarks on the disjuncture between the high level of anecdotal and empirical evidence (especially web-based) about such developments and the lack of academic analyses of them. Programmatically, it points out where such analysis could be done and the main issues involved in such exploring. Key words: sex, transport, travel, mobility, gender

History Workshop Journal, 2006

This third International Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport... more This third International Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T 2 M) productively focused on that third and crucial 'T'word–tourism–in a three-day event encompassing nearly ninety papers.

History Workshop Journal, 1989

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE IN BARCELONA 'International Days for Peace, Freedom and Democracy&... more INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE IN BARCELONA 'International Days for Peace, Freedom and Democracy' 'Jornades Internationals per la Pau. la Uibertat i la democracia.' Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the farewell march of the International Brigade in Barcelona, Oct ...

Only published here, 2020

This chronology is about only what was recorded, not about all that happened. It's about events, ... more This chronology is about only what was recorded, not about all that happened. It's about events, not trends. So these pages are the tip of unknown icebergs. Necessarily a chronology of formal records refers to control and punishment, rather than to tolerance, love and pleasure. Both the Merchant Navy (including Royal Fleet Auxiliary) and the Royal Navy are the focus. People's experiences were very different. The Royal Navy was stricter and more likely to record 'offences', which reached courts-martial level. Homosexuality and same-sex sex was probably more possible in the Merchant Navy, which kept few records of LGBT+ matters (because 'miscreants' were either put off the ship or tolerated). Records of Merchant Navy personnel offences are more likely to be found in newspapers reports of cottaging ashore.