In their own words : : forgotten women pilots of early aviation / / Fred Erisman.

Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhar...

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Superior document:Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics
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Place / Publishing House:West Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • IN THEIR OWN Words
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Aviation Age Takes Shape
  • I. Harriet Quimby: Birdwomen Gain a Voice, 1910-1912
  • II. "Machinery Knows No Sex": Ruth Law, the Stinson Sisters, and the Legacy of World War I
  • III. The Earhart Phenomenon and "The Accident of Sex"
  • IV. Louise Thaden: Rethinking Flying and Flight
  • V. Ruth Nichols, the Air-Minded Society, and the Aerial Frontier
  • VI. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Twilight of the Aviation Age
  • Epilogue: Requiem for the Aviation Age
  • Notes