women and outer space in popular film and culture, 1960-2000 /
Marie Lathers
New York :
Continuum,
2010
x, 240 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-232) and index
Introduction : Space for women : a problem deferred. It's about time : a brief history of women in space. Bottled up : inner and outer space in I dream of Jeannie. Staying home : astronaut wives and domestic engineering. Chimpanzees in space and Gorillas in the mist. The astronaut's new clothes : naked in space in Nude on the moon, Barbarella, and Alien. Making contact. First contact. Conclusion : Black holes and the body of the astrophysicist