Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) 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.
