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Fly With Me review: How 'Barbie doll' air stewardesses battled outrageous 1970s sexism, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Has there ever been a more sexually suggestive ad campaign? 'I'm Judy,' smiled the blonde stripping down to her bikini in the Florida sunshine.
It was really an insult,' said former flight attendant Kathleen Heenan, on Fly With Me, a documentary that tells how air stewardesses were in the vanguard of the 1970s feminist movement. Much of the fascination of this two-part history lesson was seeing how casually outrageous the treatment was of women at work, half a century ago With airliners commandeered by the U.S. Army to transport troops in and out of Vietnam, they regularly flew into the war zone, coming under fire.
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