| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The Very Idea of Airspace -- 2. Private Airspace: Women and Light Aeroplane Clubs -- 5. The (In)competency of Commercial Women Pilots: The "B" Licence Ban -- 4. The Empire Takes Flight -- 5. The Godwit Flies Home -- 6. Challenging Heteronormativity: The Pilot's Body as Breadwinning Commodity |
| Summary |
"The romance of flying the airways that developed above the British empire between the two world wars seduced young women with the promise of independence, glamour, and adventure." "Using a wealth of archival material, Liz Millward investigates the very idea of airspace. She maps the contours of five forms of civilian airspace - the private, the commercial, the imperial, the national, and the body of the pilot herself - as concrete places through which social differences such as gender, class, race, and sexuality were reproduced and challenged." "Women in British Imperial Airspace is a provocative exploration of the often difficult and rebellious struggle of women pilots as they attempted to produce, define, and gain access to the spaces created when popular and commercial flying took off"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index |
| Subject |
Women air pilots -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
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Women in aeronautics -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
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Women in aeronautics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Women air pilots -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Aeronautics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Aeronautics -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
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Women in aeronautics -- History -- 20th century
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TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- General.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- Piloting & Flight Instruction.
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Aeronautics
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Women air pilots
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Women in aeronautics
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Great Britain
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New Zealand
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008273504 |
| ISBN |
9780773560512 |
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0773560513 |
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1282850458 |
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9781282850453 |
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