Queer career : sexuality and work in modern America / Margot Canaday.
"Historians have noted that gay identity is central to the history of capitalism, but because of an assumption that workplaces were "straight spaces" in which queer people passed, historians of sexuality have had almost nothing to say about work, instead directing their attention to t...
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Table of Contents:
- 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