Women and the Jet Age
A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants
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2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8177-3 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8177-3 (ISBN)
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Women and the Jet Age is a global history of postwar aviation that examines how states nurtured airlines for competing political and economic goals during the Cold War. While previous histories almost exclusively stress American and Western European aviation progress, Phil Tiemeyer examines how smaller, poorer states in socialist Eastern Europe and in the postcolonial Global South utilized airlines of their own to forge rival pathways to modernization.
Part of this modernization involved norms for working women. Stewardesses at airlines around the globe encountered novel threats to their dignity as the Jet Age approached. By the late 1960s, stewardesses endured harsh objectification: high hem lines, tight uniforms, and raunchy marketing were touted as modern and liberated. These women, whether from West, East, or South, forged their own pathways to achieve greater dignity at work. In Women and the Jet Age, Tiemeyer's global account of the rise of air travel and of early feminist strivings among stewardesses is one of the first histories to place such developments—political, economic, and feminist—in dialogue with each other.
Part of this modernization involved norms for working women. Stewardesses at airlines around the globe encountered novel threats to their dignity as the Jet Age approached. By the late 1960s, stewardesses endured harsh objectification: high hem lines, tight uniforms, and raunchy marketing were touted as modern and liberated. These women, whether from West, East, or South, forged their own pathways to achieve greater dignity at work. In Women and the Jet Age, Tiemeyer's global account of the rise of air travel and of early feminist strivings among stewardesses is one of the first histories to place such developments—political, economic, and feminist—in dialogue with each other.
Phil Tiemeyer is Associate Professor of History and Director of Security Studies at Kansas State University. He is the author of Plane Queer, winner of the John Boswell Prize for best book in the field of LGBTQ History.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 907 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-8177-4 / 1501781774 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-8177-3 / 9781501781773 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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