Femininity in flight : a history of flight attendants / / Kathleen M. Barry

• Autore: Barry Kathleen M (Kathleen Morgan)
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/813877420973; 331.4813877420973
• Soggetto topico: Flight attendants - United States - History; Flight attendants - Labor unions - United States; Feminism - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Femininity in flight
• ISBN: 1-283-02297-4; 9786613022974; 0-8223-8950-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824221903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Radical perspectives.