Femininity in Flight
Subtitle: A History of Flight Attendants (Radical Perspectives)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: February 2007
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780822339465
Subjects: Aerospace & air transport industries; Social history; Women's studies; History; History - U.S; History: American; USA; United States - 20th Century; American Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; History, U.S; Feminism; Flight attendants; Labor unions; United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction 1; title: 1. “Psychological Punch”: Nurse-Stewardesses in the 1930s 11; title: 2. “Glamour Girls of the Air”: The Postwar Stewardess Mystique 36; title: 3. “Labor’s Loveliest”: Postwar Union Struggles 60; title: 4. “Nothing But an Airborne Waitress”: The Jet Age 96; title: 5. “Do I Look Like an Old Bag?”: Glamour and Women’s Rights in the Mid-1960s 122; title: 6. “You’re White, You’re Free and You’re 21-What Is It?”: Title VII 144; title: 7. “Fly Me? Go Fly Yourself!”: Stewardess Liberation in the 1970s 174; title: Epilogue: After Title VII and Deregulation 211; title: Notes 223; title: Bibliography 271; title: Index 293