In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation /

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"Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erisman, Fred, 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]
Series:Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.
Subjects:
Women air pilots > Biography.
Women in aeronautics.
Aeronautics > History > 20th century > Sources.
Air pilots' writings, American > 20th century.
Femmes pilotes d'aéronef > Biographies.
Femmes en aéronautique.
TRANSPORTATION > Aviation > History.
Women.
Gender equality.
Women air pilots' writings, American
Aircraft & aviation
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The aviation age takes shape
  • Harriet Quimby: birdwomen gain a voice, 1910-1912
  • "Machinery knows no sex": Ruth Law, the Stinson sisters, and the legacy of World War I
  • The Earhart phenomenon and "the accident of sex"
  • Louise Thaden: rethinking 'flying' and 'flight'
  • Ruth Nichols, the air-minded society, and the aeriel frontier
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the twilight of the aviation age
  • Epilogue: requiem for the aviation age.

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