Erisman, Fred,

In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation / Fred Erisman. - 1 online resource (242 pages). - Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

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Women in aeronautics.
Women air pilots.
Aeronautics.
Aeronautics--History.
Women in aeronautics.
Women air pilots--Biography.


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