Steel closets : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers / Anne Balay.
2014
HQ76.3.U52 I63 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Steel closets : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers / Anne Balay.
Author
Balay, Anne.
ISBN
9781469614007 hardcover alkaline paper
1469614006 hardcover alkaline paper
9781469614014 electronic book
1469614006 hardcover alkaline paper
9781469614014 electronic book
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xi, 172 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HQ76.3.U52 I63 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/609772
Summary
Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwest Indiana. They discuss what it means to be queer and shed light on the incredible homophobia and violence faced; most remain closeted at work, and many have experienced harassment, violence, or rape.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.
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Table of Contents
Setting the scene
Bridging the divide between work and home
Secrecy : its logic and consequences
Female masculinity in the steel mill
Male masculinity in the steel mill
Danger and death in and out of the mills
Unions in twenty-first-century America.
Bridging the divide between work and home
Secrecy : its logic and consequences
Female masculinity in the steel mill
Male masculinity in the steel mill
Danger and death in and out of the mills
Unions in twenty-first-century America.