Queer career sexuality and work in modern America
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an e...
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
[2022]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Gay Labor
- Chapter 1: "The Homosexual Does Cope Fairly Successfully with the Straight World": Defining Gay Labor at Midcentury
- Chapter 2: "The Ones Who . . . Had Nothing to Lose": Days and Nights in the Queer Work World
- Part II: Law and Liberation
- Chapter 3: "I Have Brought the Very Government . . . to Its Knees": The Campaign to End the Ban on Federal Employment
- Chapter 4: "Trouble" Followed "Revolutionary Action": Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Work
- Part III: Civil Rights in a Neoliberal Age
- Chapter 5: "Discrimination Engendered an Epidemic All of Its Own": The AIDS Crisis on the Job
- Chapter 6: Making the "Business Case": Gay Rights Inside the Post-Fordist Corporation
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Index