Marie Lathers

Space Oddities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781441172051
• ISBN-10: 144117205X
• Artikelnr.: 35407615

Autorenporträt

Marie Lathers

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction.  Space for Women:  A Problem Deferred
Chapter 1.  It's About Time:  A Brief History of Women in Space
I. Arrows of Time
II. No Official Requirement
III. Astronauts on Display
Chapter 2.  Bottled Up:  Inner and Outer Space in I Dream of Jeannie
I. Screen Memories
II. Alienation and the Arab Body
III. There is Another Kind of Space Here
Chapter 3.  Staying Home:  Astronaut Wives and Domestic Engineering
I. Angels in the House
II. The Engineered Century
III. Mothers in Space
Chapter 4.  Chimpanzees in Space and Gorillas in the Mist
I. We are the Monkey
II. The Colonialist Imperative
III. The Old Lady Who Lives in the Forest Without a Man
Chapter 5.  The Astronaut's New Clothes:  Naked in Space in Nude on the
Moon, Barbarella, and Alien
I. Dressing for Success
II. Cosmic Striptease
III. In Space No One Can See You Undress
Chapter 6.  Making Contact
I. First Contact
II. Contact in the 1990s
III. Kissing Cousins
Conclusion.  Black Holes and the Body of the Astrophysicist
Works Cited
Index