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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Flight attendants--History.--United States Flight attendants--Labor unions--United States. Gays--Employment--United States. Sexual orientation--United States. Civil rights--History.--United States