02691nam 22006614a 450 991077799500332120080423030928.01-283-02297-497866130229740-8223-8950-910.1515/9780822389507(CKB)1000000000758161(EBL)1169868(OCoLC)226067970(SSID)ssj0000393165(PQKBManifestationID)11283496(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000393165(PQKBWorkID)10380037(PQKB)11229657(MiAaPQ)EBC1169868(OCoLC)1139389490(MdBmJHUP)muse79220226067970(DE-B1597)553613(DE-B1597)9780822389507(OCoLC)1224278088(EXLCZ)99100000000075816120080423d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFemininity in flight[electronic resource] a history of flight attendants /Kathleen M. BarryDurham Duke University Press20071 online resource (324 p.)Radical perspectivesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-3946-3 0-8223-3934-X Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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.Radical perspectives.Flight attendantsUnited StatesHistoryFlight attendantsLabor unionsUnited StatesFeminismUnited StatesFlight attendantsHistory.Flight attendantsLabor unionsFeminism331.4/813877420973Barry Kathleen M(Kathleen Morgan)1554248NcDNcDBOOK9910777995003321Femininity in flight3815377UNINA