| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the Pan Am skies as frontier of jet-age mobility -- 1955: postwar America, things Japanese, and "one-world?" tourism -- The "world's most experienced airline?" : Pan Am as global, national, and personal icon -- "Nisei?" stewardesses: dreams of Pan American's girl-next-door frontier -- Airborne class act : service and prestige as racialized spectacle -- Becoming Pan Am : bodies, emotions, subjectivity -- Frontier dreams : race, gender, class, cosmopolitan mobilities |
| Summary |
An account of Pan Am s Nisei stewardess program (1955-1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses, ostensibly for their Asian-language skills |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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Pan American World Airways, Inc. |
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Flight attendants -- United States
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Japanese American women -- Employment
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Flight attendants.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- Commercial.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0822393360 |
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1283252015 |
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6613252018 |
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9780822393368 |
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9781283252010 |
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9786613252012 |
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