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Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace
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  • Title Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice
  • Author Ryan Patrick Murphy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Temple University Press
  • Date 2016-10-28
  • ISBN 9781439909898 / 143990989X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminism - United States, Sexism - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016003227
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.881

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About the author

Ryan Patrick Murphy--a former San Francisco-based flight attendant for United Airlines and Council Representative for Association of Flight Attendants-CWA Council 11--is Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

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