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Jet sex : airline stewardesses and the making of an american icon / Victoria Vantoch.
LIBRA HD8039.A43 V35 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vantoch, Vicki
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flight attendants--United States--History--20th century.
- Flight attendants.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Flying Nurses, Lady Pilots, and the Rise of Commercial Aviation 9
- 2 The Rise of the Stewardess 27
- 3 Breaking the Race Barrier 27
- 4 A New Jet-Winged World 58
- 5 Vodka, Tea, or Me? 125
- 6 From Warm-Hearted Hostesses to In-Flight Strippers 153
- 7 Beautiful Beehives and Feminist Consciousness 186.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812244818
- 9780812244816
- OCLC:
- 821217844
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