Steel Closets Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

Name: Steel Closets Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
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ISBN: 9781469614007

ISBN-10: 1469614006

ISBN-13: 9781469614007

Edition: 2014

Authors: Anne Balay

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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. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, to give voice to this previously silent and invisible population. She presents powerful stories of the intersections of work, class, gender, and sexual identity in the dangerous industrial setting of the steel mill. The voices and stories captured by Balay--by turns alarming, heroic, funny, and devastating--challenge contemporary understandings of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Anne Balay has taught English and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University Northwest.