Space Oddities Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000

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A fascinating new perspective on the Space Race combining brilliant film scholarship with gender studies and feminist theory.

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Space for Women: A Problem Deferred	p. 1
It's About Time: A Brief History of Women in Space	p. 18
Bottled Up: Inner and Outer Space in I Dream of Jeannie	p. 49
Staying Home: Astronaut Wives and Domestic Engineering	p. 77
Chimpanzees in Space and Gorillas in the Mist	p. 115
The Astronaut's New Clothes: Naked in Space in Nude on the Moon, Barbarella, and Alien	p. 145
Making Contact	p. 182
Conclusion: Black Holes and the Body of the Astrophysicist	p. 205
Notes	p. 213
Works Cited	p. 222
Index	p. 233
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