This book is about the struggles of women pilots to produce, define, and gain access to civilian airspace. It is also about how their struggles contributed to and were constrained by the division of airspace into five forms: the private, the commercial, the imperial, the national, and the body of the pilot herself, each of which contained particular relations of gender, class, race, sexuality, nationalism, and imperialism. Millward discusses different ways in which women pilots have been analyzed. She includes a comparison of gendered airspace in New Zealand and Britain, and the reception of the record breaking flight of New Zealand's pilot Jean Batten in 1936.
This book engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations. The shaping of an individual’s identity, communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural interactions, among other things.