This collection of essays is ever-expanding. Each essay posted has a series of hyperlinks to the primary sources that were used to inspire the arguements made. Copies of these essays may be downloaded through links to pdf. files.

"It's Our Turn" written for a research seminar in the spring of 2000, presents an overview of the history of stewardesses and flight attendants. All of the ideas in this essay have continued to mature into other more narrow studies.

"Social Spaces in High Above Places" written in the fall of 2002, for a course on vectors, this essay attempts to envision a map of social space, looking more deeply at the ways in which the changing shape of planes affected the stewardess and flight attendant job, as well as the experience of passengers.

"Flying Girls, Super Sleuths, and Sex Goddesses" is the most recent essay in this collection, written in the spring of 2003. Having discovered an interesting genre of popular fiction that focused on stewardesses as heroic figures, this essay presents the many changes in the "Airborne Heroine," from 1911-1982.

All essays remain in development, and feedback is always welcomed!