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News Brief - "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s

Added 2023-06-14 15:08:17 +0000 UTC

In this Citations Needed Live Interview, Nima and Adam talk to Nell McShane Wulfhart, journalist and author of T he Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet, about the airline industry’s history of misogynistic ad campaigns and union busting - and the extraordinary and inspiring efforts by flight attendants - the "pretty faces" behind the tawdry ads - to fight back.

Guest

Nell McShane Wulfhart (@nellmwulfhart) is a journalist from Philadelphia, currently based in Uruguay. A former New York Times columnist and frequent contributor, Nell also writes for Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, and T Magazine, and elsewhere. Her latest book, now in paperback, is The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet.

Show Notes

Flight Attendants Fight Back

Jennifer Gonnerman | May 23, 2022 | The New Yorker

Delta Is the Only Major U.S. Airline Without a Flight Attendant’s Union. That May Soon Change

Nell McShane Wulfhart | April 21, 2022 | TIME

These 1960s airline stewardesses launched a workplace revolution against sexism — and you can too

Know Your Value | April 19, 2022 | MSNBC

The time when flight attendants said: ‘Go fly yourself!’

Nell McShane Wulfhart | March 29, 2022 | National Geographic

The story of pioneering Black flight attendant Patricia Banks-Edmiston

Here & Now | April 5, 2023 | WABC-TV New York

Meet the Flight Attendants Who Fought For Equality During the Civil Rights Era

December 10, 2021 | National Air and Space Museum

Sexy Stewardesses Of The '60s and '70s: Friendly Skies Indeed

Karen Harris | June 12, 2018 | Groovy History

‘It’s pervasive, it’s every day’ — How a history of sexism in the airline industry echoes today

Michael D. Regan and Megan Thompson | February 11, 2018 | PBS Newshour

13 sexist vintage airline ads from the '60s: "Someone may get a wife"

Margarita Noriega | August 7, 2015 | Vox

Women in the Skies: The Birth of the Stewardess

Lisa Hix | September 16, 2014 | Ms. Magazine

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Transcript

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