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

English · Paperback / Softback

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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"--

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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.


Product details

Authors Phil Tiemeyer
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.07.2025
 
EAN 9781501781780
ISBN 978-1-5017-8178-0
No. of pages 277
Subjects Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel
Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)

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