Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (Wasps) of World War II - Brossura

Merryman, Molly

 
9780814755686: Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (Wasps) of World War II
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ISBN 10: 0814755682 ISBN 13: 9780814755686
Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2001

Sinossi

During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) program, however, was comprised entirely of women who flew dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men.

Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was projected as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. "Flyboys" were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized.

In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents (many of which were declassified only in the 1980s), congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II, to trace the history of the over 1,000 pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures which culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans benefits.




Women Who Flew documentary short directed and produced by Molly Merryman & Tom Baumann.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Molly Merryman is Associate Pprofessor of Sociology and the founding director of Kent State University's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and a documentary filmmaker.

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Editore
New York Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0814755682
ISBN 13 
9780814755686
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
264
Contatto del produttore
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9780814755679: Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (Wasps) of World War II

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ISBN 10:  0814755674 ISBN 13:  9780814755679
Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1997
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