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Plane Queer : Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants /

"In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identifie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.