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Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Flight attendants--History.--United States
Flight attendants--Labor unions--United States.
Gays--Employment--United States.
Sexual orientation--United States.
Civil rights--History.--United States

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6073.A432 / T54 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.7/61387742