In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words

Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

Erisman, Fred

Purdue University Press

01/2021

232

Mole

Inglês

9781557539786

15 a 20 dias

333

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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
Bibliography of Works Consulted
Index
aviation; women; pilot; technology; flight; planes; airplane; Wright brothers; Amelia Earhart; Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Harriet Quimby; Ruth Law; Katherine Stinson; Marjorie Stinson; Louise Thaden; Ruth Nichols