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E-book In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

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Most of the pilots who wrote of their lives in aviation were not concerned with artistry. They were amateur or journeyman authors, less interested in shaping and polishing their phrases than they were in celebrating a topic about which they were passionate. They were impelled by their experiences to argue the case for aviation, awak-ening the American public to the progressive possibilities of the enterprise and talking of ways in which it might go on to shape their worlds (and those of the future) for the better. A notable number of these writers were women.Despite Amelia Earhart’s de facto standing as the personification of American women in aviation during the 1930s, she was but one member of the era’s closely knit community of women pilots. Many of these women, well-known in the profession and widely publicized in the press of the time, have been studied individually, but they are largely overlooked in popular histories of the decade. Still more crucial is that Earhart and her contemporaries were only the most recent of a long line of women pilots whose lives and activities extended back to the earliest days of aviation. Many of these women, including Earhart, wrote of the complementary qualities of aviation and women’s causes, recording their activities throughout the emergence and matur-ing of America’s air age.They wrote of their times and their experiences, and over forty-plus years of tech-nological evolution they evinced a singular consistency of experience. Aviation, they discovered, was an experience that spoke to them as women, and offered at least the possibility of greater opportunity and equality for their gender. Their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the maturing of the airplane and aviation and sheds considerable light upon the complex relationship between capable, ambitious women and the larger American society. That text is the focus of this book.One segment of the American aviation world is omitted here — the African American flying community. From Bessie Coleman in the years after World War I through Willa Brown in the 1930s, the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, and astro-nauts Guy Bluford, Mae Jemison, and Jeanette J. Epps in the 1990s and after, there has been a significant African American presence in aviation. Until recently, however, that presence was obscured by social convention and prejudice. Racial segregation in the United States prior to the 1960s extended to writings by and about African American fliers, creating a widespread national ignorance of their presence and contributions.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

305.3 ERI i

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London : Purdue University Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

233 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781557539809

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305.3

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text

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computer

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Gender

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