First aviator women: a cultural construction between exclusion and ambiguity

Abstract

The main topic of the article is to present the first pilot women as an example of the dichotomy between tradition and modernity in cultural gender roles. This text has several specific contributions. First, it shows women that meant a new shape of femenin visibility and creativity. An original way of entering into the public space that forced to reconsider previous ideologies and to generate different ways to value and signify them. Second, the text also contributes with another route to show the relationship between women, and science and technology. It proves that this relationship has deeper roots and more varied shapes than it is usually considered. Lastly, this case highlights the instrumentalization that is carried out on women, their knowledge and activities from the patriarchal power through their transmission through specific paths of communication and authority.