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Willis, Patricia K.

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The Stewardesses for Women's Rights: Opening closed doors for radical change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Stewardesses for Women's Rights: Opening closed doors for radical change./
Author:	Willis, Patricia K.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1996.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3132855
ISBN:	9780496800957

The Stewardesses for Women's Rights: Opening closed doors for radical change.
Willis, Patricia K.

The Stewardesses for Women's Rights: Opening closed doors for radical change. - 384 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1996.

Thesis (D.A.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2004.

The Stewardesses for Women's Rights (SFWR) was a feminist labor organization that existed between 1972 and 1976. It was organized by a group of women who realized that their labor, legal, and social conditions were inferior to that of male crew members. Stewardesses suffered from labor inequities, such as forced early retirement between twenty-eight and thirty-five years of age, prohibitions against marriage and dependents, narrow weight and personal appearance policies that included grooming checks by supervisors to scrutinize their figures, makeup, underwear, complexion, body hair, and hair style. Airlines did not provide stewardesses with their own hotel rooms while they did stewards and pilots. Pilots were provided with crew meals by their company but flight attendants often were not, while pilots also received higher per diem meal allowances than flight attendants.

ISBN: 9780496800957Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

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520 $a Stewardesses suffered from the sexualized image the airlines contrived during the late 1960's and early 1970's. The "playmate in the sky" image was created by the airlines as a marketing tool. Stewardesses were forced to become highly sexualized workers, often required to perform "airstrip" shows for passengers in between meal and beverage services. Stewardesses were confronted with passengers' and pilots' sexual advances as a result of airlines' sexual commodification of their jobs and bodies. The women who formed the Stewardesses for Women's Rights became intolerant of the injustices perpetrated on them by the patriarchal/capitalist system. They were radicalized into an awareness of the injustices against them by the Second Wave Feminist Movement. SFWR used feminist doctrine, strategy, and help from many prominent Second Wave feminists leaders to rectify their conditions. Amongst their staunch allies were Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem. Feminist organizations such as NOW offered frequent assistance.
520 $a SFWR stewardesses were instrumental in the creation of labor unions independent of the male dominated unions that had persisted before SFWR. SFWR worked to eradicate the sexualized stewardess image and to present stewardesses to the travelling public as the legitimate airline safety workers they had always been. SFWR's legacy as an adamant defender of women's labor, legal, and social rights unalterably changed the flight attendant job to reflect feminist ideas and goals.
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