Women and the Jet Age - A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants

"Women and the Jet Age is an international labor history of women in the aviation industry-primarily flight attendants-during the Cold War. This book focuses on two case studies: JAT Yugoslav Airways (Jugoslovenski Aero Transport) from socialist Eastern Europe and Air Jamaica from the decolonized Global South"--

List of contents

Introduction: The Confines of Cosmopolitanism

1. Clare Boothe Luce: And the West's Postwar Cartography of Colonialism

2. The Nonaligned Airline: JATAirways and Yugoslavia'sEast-West-South Axis

3. G. Arthur Brown: And Air Jamaica's Precarious Founding

4. Alix d'Unienville: And the West'sStrict Confines on CosmopolitanWorking Women

5. Dragica Pavlovi: JAT Stewardessesat the Crossroads of East,West, and South

6. Marguerite LeWars Kirkpatrick: Making Jamaican Women RaciallyEligible for Jet Age Labor

7. Mary Wells Lawrence: And theLaunch of America's Jet Ag

8. Love, Fashion, and the Stjuardesa: Yugoslavia's Jet Age Feminism

9. "Rare Tropical Birds": Postcolonialand Neo-imperialist Legaciesof Jet Age Feminism

10. Jet Age Feminist Subversives: Firsthand Accounts fromAir Jamaica and JAT Stewardesses

Conclusion

About the author

Phil Tiemeyer

Product details

• Authors: Phil Tiemeyer
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.07.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781501781773
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-8177-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)