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  title info:
    title: In their own words
    sub title: forgotten women pilots of early aviation
  name:
    name part: Erisman, Fred
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women's causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Aviation (1925-1940). Earhart and her contemporaries, however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots whose activities reached back to the earliest days of aviation. These women, too, wrote about aviation, speaking out for new and progressive technology and its potential for the advancement of the status of women. With those of their more recent counterparts, their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the maturation of the airplane, aviation, and women's growing desire for equality in American society. In Their Own Words takes up the writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the growth of American aviation and the changing role of women. Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), Ruth Law (1887-1970), and the sisters Katherine and Marjorie Stinson (1893-1977; 1896-1975) came to prominence in the years between the Wright brothers and World War I. Earhart (1897-1937), Louise Thaden (1905-1979), and Ruth Nichols (1901-1960) were the voices of women in aviation during the Golden Age of Aviation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), the only one of the eight who legitimately can be called an artist, bridges the time from her husband's 1927 flight through the World War II years and the coming of the Space Age. Each of them confronts issues relating to the developing technology and possibilities of aviation. Each speaks to the importance of assimilating aviation into daily life. Each details the part that women might-and should-play in advancing aviation. Each talks about ho…
  table of contents: Cover -- IN THEIR OWN Words -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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
  note: Fred Erisman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Women air pilots
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women in aeronautics
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Femmes pilotes d'aéronef
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Femmes en aéronautique
  subject:
    topic: TRANSPORTATION
    topic: Aviation
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics
  subject:
    topic: Women air pilots
  subject:
    topic: Women in aeronautics
  classification: TL539
  classification: 629.130922
  related item:
    title info:
      title: In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation
    name:
      name part: Erisman, Fred.
    origin info:
      publisher: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, ©2021
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics
  identifier: 9781557539793
  identifier: 1557539790
  identifier: 9781557539809
  identifier: 1557539804
  identifier: 9781557539786
  identifier: 22573/ctv15nd389 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv15pjxwd
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 201116
    record change date: 20230103223548.5
    record identifier: in00004635858
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng