Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants /

Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barry, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Morgan)
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Description:	xv, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Radical perspectives
Subject:	Flight attendants -- United States -- History. Flight attendants -- Labor unions -- United States. Feminism -- United States. Feminism. Flight attendants. Flight attendants -- Labor unions. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6263132

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ISBN:	9780822339342 (cloth : alk. paper) 082233934X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822339465 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822339463 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Psychological Punch": Nurse-Stewardesses in the 1930s
2. "Glamour Girls of the Air": The Postwar Stewardess Mystique
3. "Labor's Loveliest": Postwar Union Struggles
4. "Nothing But an Airborne Waitress": The Jet Age
5. "Do I Look Like an Old Bag?": Glamour and Women's Rights in the Mid-1960s
6. "You're White, You're Free and You're 21-What Is It?": Title VII
7. "Fly Me? Go Fly Yourself!": Stewardess Liberation in the 1970s
Epilogue: After Title VII and Deregulation
Notes
Bibliography
Index