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035			_a(DE-B1597)9783110629828
035			_a(DE-B1597)502189
035			_a(OCoLC)1110718704
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050	0	0	_aTL789.8.U5 _bH54 2019
072		7	_aHIS027130 _2bisacsh
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHilck, Karin _eautore
245	1	0	_aLady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies : _bWomen and the American Space Community during the Cold War, 1960s-1980s / _cKarin Hilck.
264		1	_aMünchen ; _aWien : _bDe Gruyter Oldenbourg, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a1 online resource (IX, 465 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aFamily Values and Social Change , _x2366-9462 ; _v5
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _t1. Introduction -- _t2. Mapping the space community -- _t3. Media space in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s -- _t4. Office space in the 1960s and 1970s -- _t5. Lab space in the late 1950s and 1960s -- _t6. Work space in the 1960s and 1970s -- _t7. Equal space in the 1970s -- _t8. Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies and the space community -- _tAbbreviations -- _tArchive Directory -- _tBibliography -- _tAcknowledgements -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe 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 space community. It therewith grants insight into the several layers of female participation and agency in the community and the gender and race based obstacles and hurdles the female (prospective) astronauts, scientists, engineers, artists, administrators, writers, hostesses, secretaries, and wives were faced with at NASA and in the space industry. In each chapter a different social space within the space community is analyzed. The spaces where the women lived and worked are researched from a media, individual, and institutional angle, ultimately revealing the differing gender philosophies communicated in the public sphere and the space community workplaces by government and space community officials. While women were publicly encouraged to participate in the American space effort to beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon, women had to deal with gender based barriers which were integral to the structures of the space community; just as they were an intrinsic component of all societal structures in the United States in the 1960s. The female space workers, who were often perceived as disrupters of the prevalent social order in the space community and discriminated by some of their male colleagues and bosses on a personal basis, still managed to assert themselves. They molded pockets of agency in the space community workspaces without the facilitation of regulations on the part of NASA that might have provided them with easier access or more agency. Thus, the space community, a place of technological innovation, was not necessarily also a place of social innovation, but a community with a government agency at its center that mainly mirrored the current (changing) social order, conventions, and policies in the 1960s as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the women presented in this book were instrumental in advancing and consolidating the social transformation that happened within the space community and the United States and therefore make intriguing subjects of research. Thus, this systematic analysis of the connection between gender, space, and the Cold War adds a new dimension to space history as well as expands the discourse in American history about gender relations and the opportunities of women in the twentieth century.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
650		0	_aAstronautics _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCold War _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWomen astronauts _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen engineers _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen in aeronautics _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aAstronautin.
650		4	_aGender Studies.
650		4	_aKalter Krieg.
650		4	_aVereinigte Staaten von Amerika.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other). _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629828
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110629828
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110629828/original
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