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Zusatztext "An outstanding social history of flight attendants and their challenges since the beginning of air transportation. . . . This is social history of a high order; it also successfully draws an important aspect of aerospace history into a larger conversation about the culture of America in the period between the 1960s and the 1980s when the gay flight attendant became a much more public figure." Informationen zum Autor Phil Tiemeyer is Associate Professor at Kansas State University. Klappentext "Tiemeyer takes a completely original approach to a fascinating subject in aviation history and American history. He deftly reconstructs the careers of gay flight attendants and relates them to changes in urban nightlife! the technological and regulatory revolutions in aviation! the cold war backlash against homosexuality! the civil rights movement! feminism! neoliberalism! and the AIDS pandemic. His postmortem on the "patient zero" legend of Gaëtan Dugas is nothing short of a revelation."-David Courtwright! author of Sky as Frontier "Phil Tiemeyer's terrific book delivers the long! forgotten history of the male flight attendant. That history stretches back to the dawn of commercial aviation! and was characterized by waves of toleration and scorn in which the male steward was repeatedly drawn in and then forced out of the occupation. Through jack-of-all-trades research methods! Tiemeyer has broken the boundaries that separate labor! legal! and LGBT history! and given us a unique vantage on the history of AIDS. Pioneering and important." -Margot Canaday! author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America " Plane Queer demonstrates the usefulness of thinking about the treatment of workers seen as "gender-queers": those who refuse to act in the ways expected of individuals of their sex! regardless of their own sexual orientation. In doing so! he expands notions of gender rights! queer rights! and the impact of homophobia on all workers." -Ileen A. DeVault! Professor of Labor History! Cornell University "In this seemingly narrow demographic, Tiemeyer finds notable achievements in equal rights, from the first workplace health benefits for domestic partners, in 2001, to a 1984 legal decision forcing an airline to reinstate a flight attendant with AIDS, which he argues was a key step in the run-up to the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act."--Don Sapatkin"Philadelphia Inquirer" (04/23/2013) Zusammenfassung Beginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to conflation of gender-based, and AIDS-based discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Pre-World War II "Gay" Flight Attendant 2. The Cold War Gender Order 3. "Homosexual Panic" and the Steward's Demise 4. Flight Attendants and Queer Civil Rights 5. Flight Attendants! Women's Liberation! and Gay Liberation 6. Flight Attendants and the Origins of an Epidemic 7. The Traynor Legacy versus the "Patient Zero" Myth 8. Queer Equality in the Age of Neoliberalism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
