Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants / / Kathleen M. Barry.

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Superior document:Radical perspectives
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Radical perspectives.
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Physical Description:xv, 304 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Psychological punch": nurse-stewardesses in the 1930s
  • "Glamor girls of the air": the postwar stewardess mystique
  • "Labor's loveliest": postwar union struggles
  • "Nothing but an airborne waitress": the jet age
  • "Do I look like an old bag?": glamour and women's rights in the mid-1960s
  • "You're white, you're free, and you're 21 - what is it?": title VII
  • "Fly me?: go fly yourself!": stewardess liberation in the 1970s
  • After title VII and deregulation.