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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. List of Abbreviations
  3. Introduction: The Confines of Cosmopolitanism
  4. Part I: Combating the West’s Cartography of Colonialism
    1. 1. Clare Boothe Luce: The West’s Postwar Cartography of Colonialism
    2. 2. The Nonaligned Airline: JAT Airways and Yugoslavia’s East-West-South Axis
    3. 3. G. Arthur Brown: Air Jamaica’s Precarious Founding
  5. Part II: Forging Cosmopolitan Working Women
    1. 4. Alix d’Unienville: The West’s Strict Confines on Cosmopolitan Working Women
    2. 5. Dragica Pavlović: JAT Stewardesses at the Crossroads of East, West, and South
    3. 6. Marguerite LeWars Kirkpatrick: Making Jamaican Women Racially Eligible for Jet Age Labor
  6. Part III: Embracing and Combating Jet Age Feminism
    1. 7. Mary Wells Lawrence: The Launch of America’s Jet Age Feminism
    2. 8. Love, Fashion, and the Stjuardesa: Yugoslavia’s Jet Age Feminism
    3. 9. “Rare Tropical Birds”: Postcolonial and Neo-imperialist Legacies of Jet Age Feminism
    4. 10. Jet Age Feminist Subversives: Firsthand Accounts from Air Jamaica and JAT Stewardesses
  7. Conclusion
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index

Women and the Jet Age

A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants

Phil Tiemeyer

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

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