NASA/TREK Popular Science and Sex in America

In this investigation and celebration of America's fascination with space, Constance Penley, a professor of film studies and women's studies at the University of California, illustrates issues of sex and sexuality in the world of science and technology and examines the widely held prejudices against women in this area. 20 photos.

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

Popular Science

1

(10)

Nasa

11

(86)

Spaced Out

22

(1)

``Hey, guys, what's this button?''

23

(9)

``7-Up and a splash of Teachers''

32

(5)

``All up and down the Florida coast''

37

(4)

Remembering

41

(5)

Repeating

46

(12)

Working-Through

58

(21)

Still Working-Through

79

(9)

Love and Rockets

88

(9)

Trek

97

(50)

``/''

100

(7)

Appropriate Technology

107

(9)

Slash Tactics: Technologies of Writing

116

(9)

Future Men

125

(7)

``Unperceived Utopias''

132

(15)

Popular Sex

147

(2)

Notes

149

(14)

Acknowledgments

163

(4)

Index

167

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NASA/TREK Popular Science and Sex in America

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