Plane queer labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.