Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture

This book explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of outer space and the extra-terrestrial.

List of contents

Introduction: Space and Time in Outer Space / Part I: The Body in Space / Introduction to Part I: 'Our first girl in space' / 1. Women as Astronauts / 2. Interstellar Communication and Space Art / 3. Taking Feminist Geography into Orbit / Part II: Sex in Space (and Time) / Introduction to Part II: Families at Work / 4. Sexual Culture in Space / 5. Retro-Futures and Reproductive Futures / 6. Queering Space, Queering the Future / 7. (Conclusion): Critical Optimism and Spaceflight

About the author

Kat Deerfield is research associate at the School of Social Science, Cardiff University

Summary

This book explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of the space and the extra-terrestrial.

Product details

• Authors: Kat Deerfield
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786607652
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-765-2
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Radical Cultural Studies; Radical Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies, gender groups