Plane queer :

Tiemeyer, Phil, 1970-

Plane queer : labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants / Phil Tiemeyer. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013. - xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-277) and index.

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.

9780520274761 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780520274778 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2012041959


Flight attendants--History.--United States
Flight attendants--Labor unions--United States.
Gays--Employment--United States.
Sexual orientation--United States.
Civil rights--History.--United States

HD6073.A432 / T54 2013

331.7/61387742

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