Space Oddities : Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000.
Title:
Space Oddities : Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000.
Author:
Lathers, Marie.
ISBN:
9781441180933
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space for Women: A Problem Deferred -- Chapter 1: It's About Time: A Brief History of Women in Space -- Chapter 2: Bottled Up: Inner and Outer Space in I Dream of Jeannie -- Chapter 3: Staying Home: Astronaut Wives and Domestic Engineering -- Chapter 4: Chimpanzees in Space and Gorillas in the Mist -- Chapter 5: The Astronaut's New Clothes: Naked in Space in Nude on the Moon, Barbarella, and Alien -- Chapter 6: Making Contact -- Conclusion: Black Holes and the Body of the Astrophysicist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
A fascinating new perspective on the Space Race combining brilliant film scholarship with gender studies and feminist theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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