Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s
obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit
community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in
the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they
are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively
about aviation and women's causes, producing an absorbing record of
the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the
Golden Age of Aviation (1925-1940). Earhart and her contemporaries,
however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots
whose activities reached back to the earliest days of aviation.
These women, too, wrote about aviation, speaking out for new and
progressive technology and its potential for the advancement of the
status of women. With those of their more recent counterparts,
their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the
maturation of the airplane, aviation, and women's growing desire
for equality in American society.In Their Own Words takes up the
writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the
growth of American aviation and the changing role of women. Harriet
Quimby (1875-1912), Ruth Law (1887-1970), and the sisters Katherine
and Marjorie Stinson (1893-1977; 1896-1975) came to prominence in
the years between the Wright brothers and World War I. Earhart
(1897-1937), Louise Thaden (1905-1979), and Ruth Nichols
(1901-1960) were the voices of women in aviation during the Golden
Age of Aviation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), the only one of
the eight who legitimately can be called an artist, bridges the
time from her husband's 1927 flight through the World War II years
and the coming of the Space Age. Each of them confronts issues
relating to the developing technology and possibilities of
aviation. Each speaks to the importance of assimilating aviation
into daily life. Each details the part that women might-and
should-play in advancing aviation. Each talks about how aviation
may enhance women's participation in contemporary American society,
making their works significant documents in the history of American
culture.
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