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The queering of corporate America : how big business went from LGBTQ adversary to ally / Carlos A. Ball.
Van Pelt Library HQ76.8.U5 B35 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Carlos A., author.
- Series:
- Queer action/queer ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay liberation movement--United States.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Gay rights.
- History.
- Sexual minorities.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- Sexual minorities--Civil rights--United States.
- Diversity in the workplace--United States.
- Diversity in the workplace.
- Minorities--Employment--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Employment.
- Gay rights--United States--History.
- Sex discrimination in employment--United States.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- LGBTQ+ employment.
- LGBTQ+ civil rights.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The book explores the role that LGBT rights activism directed at corporations and corporate activism on behalf of sexual orientation and gender identity equality have played in the LGBT movement's pursuit of political, legal, and social objectives from the Stonewall era until today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A (very) brief history of corporations in America
- LGBTQ corporate activism in the 1970s
- AIDS corporate activism in the 1980s
- Corporate domestic partnership benefits in the 1990s
- Corporate LGBTQ advocacy in the public sphere
- Corporate resistance to anti-LGBTQ rights backlash
- Looking beyond Citizens United.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ball, Carlos A., 1964- The queering of corporate America
- ISBN:
- 9780807026342
- 0807026344
- OCLC:
- 1085150262
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