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The queering of corporate America : how big business went from LGBTQ adversary to ally
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Title
The queering of corporate America : how big business went from LGBTQ adversary to ally / Carlos A. Ball.
ISBN
9780807026342
0807026344
9780807026359
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Other formats
Online version: Ball, Carlos A., 1964- The queering of corporate America Boston : Beacon Press, 2019
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2020
Series
Queer action/queer ideas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
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.
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