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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):394-396; doi:10.1093/es/khn032
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Kathleen M. Barry. Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xiv + 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-3946-5 (paper)

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One of the pleasures of Kathleen Barry's book, Femininity in Flight, is the many photographs that illustrate her arguments about how stewardesses worked to project a particular type of femininity, which she calls glamour. On page 183, for example, she includes a photograph of a youthful brunette stewardess for the fledgling airline, Southwest. The date is 1972 and the stewardess is clad in "hot pants" and high-heeled lace-up boots, leaning playfully on the seat in front . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Julie Kimmel

Germantown Academy


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