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Smile, particularly in bad weather : the era of the Australian airline hostess / Prudence Black.

Smile, particularly in bad weather : the era of the Australian airline hostess / Prudence Black.
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ISBN 9781742589251
Author Black, Prudence (author.)
Title Smile, particularly in bad weather : the era of the Australian airline hostess / Prudence Black.
Portion of title Smile
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, Western Australian UWA Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Description xi, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-294) and index.
Summary Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world, barely looking over their shoulders as they boarded aircraft. Air travel had created a new type of modern workplace—this was a job like no other—filled with adventure, shiny new technology and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed and squeezed into snappy uniforms. Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather tells a story about the development of this pioneering profession. It describes the shift from the 1930s, when the girl-next-door took to the air with a great degree of bravado, through to the 1960s and the ‘coffee, tea or me?’ stereotype where airlines sexualised the air hostess as a point of marketing difference, then on to a crucial period where the air hostess fought back, no longer wanting to be stereotyped nor discriminated against in terms of fair working conditions. This job shaped working women to become something more, it tested their independence, it encouraged self-enhancement and sophistication and it took them to places they hadn’t dreamt about.
Subjects Flight attendants -- Australia
Airlines -- Australia -- Flight attendants -- History
Flight attendants -- Biography
Call number 2017.072
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A00871482 2017.72
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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