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Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
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Airborne dreams : "Nisei" stewardesses and Pan American World Airways / Christine Yano.
ISBN
9780822348368 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822348504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 12, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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