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Author Millward, Liz, 1966-

Title Women in British imperial airspace, 1922-1937 / Liz Millward.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Contents 1. 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. Empire Takes Flight -- 5. 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.
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Subject Women air pilots -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
Women air pilots.
New Zealand.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women in aeronautics -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
Women in aeronautics.
Women in aeronautics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
Women air pilots -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics.
Aeronautics -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Millward, Liz, 1966- Women in British imperial airspace, 1922-1937. Montreal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2008273504
ISBN 9780773560512 (electronic book)
0773560513 (electronic book)
1282850458
9781282850453
9780773533370 (print)
0773533370 (print)