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Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction by Mary Cadogan (Hardcover, 1992)
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The achievements of female flyers from 18th-century balloonists to today's astronauts. Women began to pilot airplanes in 1910 and by the 1930s had produced an abundance of record-makers, Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten and Beryl Markham. Throughout World War II and after, opportunities grew for women in the air forces, commercially and in space exploration. Fictional images of female flyers are considered in comic-strips, magazines and books, from W.E. John's Woralls to Mills and Boon romances. Generally, fictional aviatrices achieve success more easily than their real-life counterparts, becoming, especially to women, symbols of liberation and feminist achievement.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780333564851
eBay Product ID (ePID)91926316
Product Key Features
Book TitleWomen with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction
AuthorMary Cadogan
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicEngineering & Technology, Zoology, Aircraft
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width162mm
Item Weight654g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMary Cadogan
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 Feb, 2018
Those Magnificent WOMEN in Their Flying Machines!
An excellent, bright, upbeat nontechnical history of Women in Aviation, from the earliest balloonists to jet pilots in the 1990s. Well researched, with quality illustrations, this chronicles the main players in Women's fight to make their mark in the "new" activity that coincided with the upsurge of First Wave Feminism. The achievements, trials & tragedies of everyone from Amelia Earhart to Sheila Scott are well told, alongside an ongoing account of how the media & children's fiction in particular handled the subject. The implication is that girls' comics did more gain public acceptance of women flyers than has been acknowledged. Chauvinism has always been a major issue, & Cadogan handles confronts it face on without losing the twinkle in her eye. Twenty five years old but Highly Recommended!Verified purchase: Yes
