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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

Copyright © 2025 by Phil Tiemeyer

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970– author.

Title: Women and the jet age : a global history of aviation and flight attendants / Phil Tiemeyer.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024045100 (print) | LCCN 2024045101 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501781773 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501781780 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501781803 (epub) | ISBN 9781501781797 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Jugoslovenski aerotransport—Employees—History—20th century. | Air Jamaica—Employees—History—20th century. | Flight attendants—Yugoslavia—History—20th century. | Flight attendants—Jamaica—History—20th century.

Classification: LCC HD8039.A432 T54 2025 (print) | LCC HD8039.A432 (ebook) | DDC 387.7/4209497—dc23/eng/20250130

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024045100

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024045101

Cover image: A flight attendant models a Jet Age uniform, 1966. Photo B1-25-006-PB001 Marne Davis with Cutty Sark (British Aircraft Corporation neg ref MP 27731). Permission to use this image courtesy of BAE Systems.

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