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
A fascinating new perspective on the Space Race combining brilliant film scholarship with gender studies and feminist theory.
Marie Lathers is Treuhaft Professor of French and Humanities at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has published books and articles in the areas of feminist theory and popular culture, 19th-century French studies, and the relationship among women, art, and literature.
Comprehensive, provocative, and sure to anger people who believe
that the space movement has progressed beyond its early treatment
of women as aliens in space. --Howard McCurdy, School of Public
Affairs, American University and University of Washington, Author
of Space and the American Imagination
"Marie Lathers' Space Oddities combines meticulous historical
research of the US space program with trenchant feminist analysis
of diverse material and media representations. Her account of our
cultural romance with space and rocketry is incisive, witty, and
engrossing in unpacking fictional and cinematic narratives
connecting interplanetary space travel with ideologies of sexual
difference. The book is a must read for anyone interested in the
relations of gender, science, and technology." --Carol Colatrella,
Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the
Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, Georgia
Institute of Technology
[Lathers’s] core assertion that ‘the ways that women in space have
been depicted in popular film and literature parallel the way
[that] government officials, scientists, and the public have
reacted to the idea’ (p.7) is a useful one for historians of
science and technology.
*Technology and Culture*
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