Space Oddities

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.

• AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction.  Space for Women:  A Problem DeferredChapter 1.  It's About Time:  A Brief History of Women in SpaceI. Arrows of TimeII. No Official RequirementIII. Astronauts on DisplayChapter 2.  Bottled Up:  Inner and Outer Space in I Dream of JeannieI. Screen MemoriesII. Alienation and the Arab BodyIII. There is Another Kind of Space HereChapter 3.  Staying Home:  Astronaut Wives and Domestic EngineeringI. Angels in the HouseII. The Engineered CenturyIII. Mothers in SpaceChapter 4.  Chimpanzees in Space and Gorillas in the MistI. We are the MonkeyII. The Colonialist ImperativeIII. The Old Lady Who Lives in the Forest Without a ManChapter 5.  The Astronaut's New Clothes:  Naked in Space in Nude on the Moon, Barbarella, and AlienI. Dressing for SuccessII. Cosmic StripteaseIII. In Space No One Can See You UndressChapter 6.  Making ContactI. First ContactII. Contact in the 1990sIII. Kissing CousinsConclusion.  Black Holes and the Body of the AstrophysicistWorks CitedIndex

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