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Gender relations in the American experienceTeitel, Amy Shira
Summary: "The mostly-unknown tale of Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb--two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who each dreamed of being the first woman in space, but along the way battled their egos, their expectations, and ultimately the patriarchal society that stood between them and the stars"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TEIHaverstick, Mary
Summary: A filmmaker working on a project about a little-known aviation legend unexpectedly stumbles upon a complex web of double identities and female spies that eventually leads to the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 HAVAckmann, Martha.
Summary: In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 ACKWeitekamp, Margaret A.
Contents: "Going to town for the men of science": Randy Lovelace and Jackie Cochran -- "This Buck Rogers nonsense": aviation and aerospace medicine -- WASPs, whirly-girls, and ninety-nines: female pilots and postwar women's aviation -- "Should a girl be first in space?": Betty Skelton, Ruth Nichols, and Jerrie Cobb -- "Initial examinations for female astronaut candidates": Lovelace's woman in space...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004