Queer Career : : Sexuality and Work in Modern America / / Margot Canaday.
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 expansive h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Gay Labor
- Chapter one. “The Homosexual Does Cope Fairly Successfully with the Straight World” defining gay labor at midcentury
- Chapter two. “The Ones Who . . . Had Nothing to Lose” days and nights in the queer work world
- Part II. Law and Liberation
- Chapter three “I Have Brought the Very Government . . . to Its Knees” the campaign to end the ban on federal employment
- Chapter four “Trouble” Followed “Revolutionary Action” lesbian and gay liberation and work
- Part III Civil Rights in a Neoliberal Age
- Chapter five “Discrimination Engendered an Epidemic All of Its Own” the aids crisis on the job
- Chapter six Making the “Business Case” gay rights inside the post-Fordist corporation
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Index