Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

Considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at the history of the occupation and how attendants redeployed the "glamorization" used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barry, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Morgan) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Radical perspectives.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Flight attendants > United States > History.
Flight attendants > Labor unions > United States.
Feminism > United States.
Agents de bord > États-Unis > Histoire.
Agents de bord > Syndicats > États-Unis.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Feminism
Flight attendants
Flight attendants > Labor unions
Flugbegleiterin
Feminismus
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

Ejemplares similares