Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies: Women and the American Space Community During the Cold War, 1960s-1980s

by Karin Hilck

The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during the Cold War. In order to expand and differentiate the prevalent postwar narrative about gender relations and cultural structures in the United States, the book analyzes several different groups of women interacting in different social spaces within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110626152
• ISBN13: 9783110626155
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"