Author: Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672274
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
HSA Space Exploration and Aviation Auction Catalog #6000
Author: Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672274
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
HSA Space Exploration and Aviation Auction Catalog #669
Author: HSA Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog #6033
Author: Marsha DixeyPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599673936
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
HSA Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog #6045, Dallas, TX
Author: Marsha DixeyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9781599674971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies
Author: Karin HilckPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110629828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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 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.
Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog #6007
Author: Marsha DixeyPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672892
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog 6139
Author: Ivy PressHeritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog 6129
Author: Ivy PressHeritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction Catalog 6158
Author: Ivy PressHeritage Auctions Space Exploration Catalog Auction #6082
Author: Michael RileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781599677538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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