Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 304 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0822389509
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082233934X
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0822339463
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9780822389507
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9780822339342
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9780822339465
Series Statement:
Radical perspectives
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE * ''Psychological Punch'' Nurse-Stewardesses in the 1930s; TWO * ''Glamor Girls of the Air'' The Postwar Stewardess Mystique; THREE * ''Labor's Loveliest''Postwar Union Struggles; FOUR * ''Nothing But an Airborne Waitress'' The Jet Age; FIVE * ''Do I Look Like an Old Bag?'' Glamour and Women's Rights in the Mid-1960s; SIX * ''You're White, You're Free, andYou're 21-What Is It?'' Title VII; SEVEN * ''Fly Me? Go Fly Yourself !'' Stewardess Liberation in the 1970s; EPILOGUE * After Title VII and Deregulation; Notes; Bibliography
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Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822339342
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Femininity in Flight : A History of Flight Attendants
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
