“Stewardesses were instructed to not serve caffeinated beverages or alcohol during a hijacking, and were encouraged to use their femininity to manipulate the hijackers.” – Julia Cooke Subscribe: Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:49:44 | Recorded on J| Speakers: Julia Cooke, Rolf Potts Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world.Ĭome Fly the World tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 19 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage.Īlongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon.Ĭooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life. Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.
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