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

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

"In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identifie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Flight attendants > United States > History.
Flight attendants > Labor unions > United States.
Gay people > Employment > United States.
Sexual orientation > United States.
Civil rights > United States > History.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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