Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear.
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
