{"product_id":"women-and-the-jet-age-phil-tiemeyer-9781501781780","title":"Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen and the Jet Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a global history of postwar aviation that examines how states nurtured airlines for competing political and economic goals during the Cold War.\u003c\/b\u003e While previous histories almost exclusively stress US 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 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 hemlines, tight uniforms, and raunchy marketing were touted as modern and liberated. These women, whether from the West, East, or South, forged their own pathways to achieve greater dignity at work. In \u003ci\u003eWomen and the Jet Age\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phil Tiemeyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501781782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501781780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Phil Tiemeyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767079293183,"sku":"9781501781780","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43589230-3334-4546-9222-339f09db79bb.jpg?v=1744168813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-and-the-jet-age-phil-tiemeyer-9781501781780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}