This unique study adds something distinctly different to the wide shelf of books about the late and often lamented US flag carrier that faded into bankruptcy late in 1991. Rather than aircraft, routes, or pilots, the focus here is on the cabin service crew in the years after 1955, and more specifically the second-generation Japanese-American women hired as stewardesses (as they were then called) for the airline's trans-Pacific run. Fundamentally, this is a study of changing social values in the air. That the author teaches anthropology at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu suggests the research approach, but should not put off non-academic readers.
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