123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Identities in Flight: Aviation's Impact on Nation, Gender, and Sexuality

Identities in Flight: Aviation's Impact on Nation, Gender, and Sexuality

AHA Session 215
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Sutton Center (Hilton New York)

Chair:

David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida

Papers:

A Flight Plan on the Periphery: Early Peruvian Aviation and the Shadow of U.S. Influence, 1920–50
Willie Hiatt, University of California at Davis

The Jet Set: Sex, Glamour, and Global Power, 1955–78
Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University

From Patient Zero to Ground Zero: Flight Attendants, AIDS, and the Queering of U.S. Organized Labor
Phil Tiemeyer, Philadelphia University

Comment:

Dominick A. Pisano, Smithsonian Institution

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