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Author Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-

Title Plane queer [electronic resource] : labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants / Phil Tiemeyer.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Description xi, 288 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Flight attendants -- United States -- History.
Flight attendants -- Labor unions -- United States.
Gays -- Employment -- United States.
Sexual orientation -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520274761 (hbk. alk. paper)
9780520274778 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780520955301 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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