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In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation / Fred Erisman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erisman, Fred, author.
- Series:
- Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women air pilots--Biography.
- Women air pilots.
- Women in aeronautics.
- Aeronautics--History.
- Aeronautics.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 17, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Erisman, Fred In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation
- ISBN:
- 9781557539793
- 1557539790
- 9781557539809
- 1557539804
- Publisher Number:
- 40030324453
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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