In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation /
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2021]
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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