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"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
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About the author
Phil Tiemeyer is Associate Professor of History and Director of Security Studies at Kansas State University. He is the author of
Plane Queer, cowinner of the John Boswell Prize for best book in the field of LGBTQ history.