Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism
'Still Missing' is a fascinating biography of one of the most intriguing women of modern history. In it, Susan Ware recovers the parts of Earhart's life that have been obscured by the emphasis on her disappearance. Setting her in her place and times, Ware speaks of the woman who set aviation records, who endlessly promoted the ability of women to enter any and all professions, who served as a dynamic role model because of her charm and spirit. Ware's portrait of Earhart is of a woman we all...
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'Still Missing' is a fascinating biography of one of the most intriguing women of modern history. In it, Susan Ware recovers the parts of Earhart's life that have been obscured by the emphasis on her disappearance. Setting her in her place and times, Ware speaks of the woman who set aviation records, who endlessly promoted the ability of women to enter any and all professions, who served as a dynamic role model because of her charm and spirit. Ware's portrait of Earhart is of a woman we all need to rediscover. Publishers Weekly Basing her analysis of early 20th-century feminism on aviator Amelia Earhart, Ware's interesting, innovative portrait initially becomes mired in biographical information. After building a historical framework, however, the author moves efficiently between Earhart's activities and the achievements of such other individualistic heroines as Eleanor Roosevelt. Earhart is presented as a courageous, poised figure as Ware ( Beyond Suffrage ) examines her membership in women's organizations, including a group of women pilots called the Ninety Nines, and explores public reaction to her record-breaking flights. While acknowledging that Earhart's then-unconventional balance of career and marriage (to publisher G. P. Putnam) was eased by having household staff, Ware nonetheless praises her as a champion of new roles for women. That Earhart is remembered primarily for her disappearance at age 39 on a 1937 round-the-world flight is indicative of American culture's inattention to female accomplishments then and now, argues Ware: ``The intent here is to rescue Amelia from the clutches of the cult of her disappearance and refocus on her life itself, especially its sense of . . . endless possibility where women are concerned.'' Photos. (Nov.)
Preface and Acknowledgments11Prologue: "Lady Lindy"15Ch. 1A Modern Woman Makes History29Ch. 2Gender and Aviation60Ch. 3It's Hard Work Being a Popular Heroine90Ch. 4Feminism and Individualism117Ch. 5Iconography and Representation144Ch. 6Popular Heroines / Popular Culture175Ch. 7The Last Flight203Epilogue: Where Did They All Go?233Notes239Credits287Index289
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Basing her analysis of early 20th-century feminism on aviator Amelia Earhart, Ware's interesting, innovative portrait initially becomes mired in biographical information. After building a historical framework, however, the author moves efficiently between Earhart's activities and the achievements of such other individualistic heroines as Eleanor Roosevelt. Earhart is presented as a courageous, poised figure as Ware ( Beyond Suffrage ) examines her membership in women's organizations, including a group of women pilots called the Ninety Nines, and explores public reaction to her record-breaking flights. While acknowledging that Earhart's then-unconventional balance of career and marriage (to publisher G. P. Putnam) was eased by having household staff, Ware nonetheless praises her as a champion of new roles for women. That Earhart is remembered primarily for her disappearance at age 39 on a 1937 round-the-world flight is indicative of American culture's inattention to female accomplishments then and now, argues Ware: ``The intent here is to rescue Amelia from the clutches of the cult of her disappearance and refocus on her life itself, especially its sense of . . . endless possibility where women are concerned.'' Photos. (Nov.)\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalWare ( Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal , LJ 8/81, among others) has written a biography of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. While the facts of Earhart's life have been told both by herself and numerous others, this book's unique approach emphasizes their significant impact on women's history. This is a scholarly portrait of a person who was not only America's best-known woman aviator but also a nurse, settlement worker, author, lecturer, and even clothing designer--a woman whose life and ideas epitomized liberal feminism before the philosophy was fully articulated. Recommended for women's studies collections.-- Florence Scar inci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.\ \
