Plane queer labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants - Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-; ProQuest (Firm) (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Flight attendants -- United States -- History; Flight attendants -- Labor unions -- United States; Gays -- Employment -- United States; Sexual orientation -- United States; Civil rights -- United States -- History; Electronic books