In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation / / Fred Erisman
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| Autore: |
Erisman Fred <1937->
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| Titolo: |
In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation / / Fred Erisman
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| Pubblicazione: | West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource.) |
| Disciplina: | 629.130922 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women air pilots |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- IN THEIR OWN Words -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Aviation Age Takes Shape -- I. Harriet Quimby: Birdwomen Gain a Voice, 1910-1912 -- II. "Machinery Knows No Sex": Ruth Law, the Stinson Sisters, and the Legacy of World War I -- III. The Earhart Phenomenon and "The Accident of Sex" -- IV. Louise Thaden: Rethinking Flying and Flight -- V. Ruth Nichols, the Air-Minded Society, and the Aerial Frontier -- VI. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Twilight of the Aviation Age -- Epilogue: Requiem for the Aviation Age -- Notes |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In their own words |
| ISBN: | 1-55753-979-0 |
| 1-55753-978-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910633985003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.