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Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants / Kathleen M. Barry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barry, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Morgan)
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flight attendants--United States--History.
- Flight attendants.
- Flight attendants--Labor unions--United States.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at the history of the occupation and how attendants redeployed the "glamorization" used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022974
- 9781283022972
- 1283022974
- 9780822389507
- 0822389509
- OCLC:
- 226067970
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