Women Arent Supposed To Fly
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Author |
: Harriet Hall |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2008-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780595499588 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0595499589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Aren't Supposed to Fly by : Harriet Hall
This irreverent romp through the worlds of medicine and the military is part autobiography, part social history, and part laugh-out-loud comedy. When the author graduated from medical school in 1970, only 7% of America's doctors were women, and very few of those joined the military. She was the second woman ever to do an Air Force internship, the only woman doctor at David Grant USAF Medical Center, and the only female military doctor in Spain. She had to fight for acceptance: even the 3 year old daughter of a patient told her father, "Oh, Daddy! That¿s not a doctor, that's a lady." She was refused a radiology residency because they subtracted points for women. She couldn¿t have dependents: she was paid less than her male counterparts, she couldn't live on base, and her civilian husband was not even covered for medical care or allowed to shop on base. After spending six years as a General Medical Officer in Franco's Spain, she became a family practice specialist and a flight surgeon, doing everything from delivering babies to flying a B-52. Along the way, she found time to buy her own airplane and learn to fly it (in that order) and to have two babies of her own. She retired as a full colonel. As a rare woman in a male-dominated field, she encountered prejudice, silliness, and even frank disbelief. Her sense of humor kept her afloat; she enlivened the solemnity of her job with antics like admitting a spider to the hospital and singing "The Mickey Mouse Club March" on a field exercise. This book describes her education and career. She tells an entertaining story of what it was like to be a female doctor, flight surgeon, pilot, and military officer in a world that wasn't quite ready for her yet. The title is taken from her first cross-country solo flight: when she closed out her flight plan, the man at the desk said, "Didn't anybody ever tell you women aren't supposed to fly?"
Author |
: Sara Maitland |
Publisher |
: Virago Press |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1853815594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781853815591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Fly when Men Aren't Watching by : Sara Maitland
Author |
: Megan Giddings |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2022-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780063117020 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0063117029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Women Could Fly by : Megan Giddings
Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times—a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman—especially a Black woman—can find herself on trial for witchcraft. But fourteen years have passed since her mother’s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of 30—or enroll in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At 28, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she’s offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time. In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face—and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them.
Author |
: Keith O'Brien |
Publisher |
: Clarion Books |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781328618429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1328618420 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fly Girls by : Keith O'Brien
From NPR correspondent O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition that celebrates a little-known slice of history wherein tenacious, trailblazing women braved all obstacles to achieve greatness in the skies. Photos.
Author |
: Serinity Young |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2018-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190659707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019065970X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Who Fly by : Serinity Young
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
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Total Pages |
: 2218 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005543080 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Delineator by :
Issue for Oct. 1894 has features articles on Mount Holyoke College and Millinery as an employment for women.
Author |
: Carolyn Russo |
Publisher |
: Bulfinch Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082122168X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780821221686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Flight by : Carolyn Russo
Presents portraits and biographies of thirty-six women aviators and astronauts
Author |
: Sherri L. Smith |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2010-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780142417256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0142417254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Flygirl by : Sherri L. Smith
For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys. All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida has a chance to fulfill her dream if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's self and family is a heavy burden, and ultimately it's not what you do but who you are that's most important. Read Sherri L. Smith's posts on the Penguin Blog
Author |
: Noelle Salazar |
Publisher |
: MIRA |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2019-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781488035067 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1488035067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Flight Girls by : Noelle Salazar
A USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! “I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Heart-breaking, validating, exciting.”—Hypable “Rich historical detail...this saga has it all.”—Woman’s World Shining a light on a little-known piece of history The Flight Girls is a sweeping portrayal of women’s fearlessness, love, and the power of friendship to make us soar. 1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It’s why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It’s why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it’s why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women she flies with. Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe. To make everything she’s lost count for something, Audrey joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots program. The bonds she forms with her fellow pilots reignite a spark of hope in the face war, and—when James goes missing in action—give Audrey the strength to cross the front lines and fight not only for her country, but for the love she holds so dear. Don't miss Noelle Salazar's next sweeping story, THE LIES WE LEAVE BEHIND, where a fearless nurse must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front... More from Noelle Salazar: The Roaring Days of Zora Lily The Flight Girls
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Total Pages |
: 1254 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435023758022 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Illustrated Magazine by :