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Author Barry, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Morgan)

Title Femininity in flight [electronic resource] : a history of flight attendants / Kathleen M. Barry.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 304 p. : ill.
Series Radical perspectives
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Radical perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Flight attendants -- United States -- History.
Flight attendants -- Labor unions -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822389507
0822389509
9780822339342 (cloth : alk. paper)
082233934X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822339465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822339463 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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