Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture

AvKat Deerfield

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Radical Cultural Studies

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Beskrivning

Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of space travel. The time since humans first began exploring outer space has been marked by both great technological development and great social upheaval. Yet while the rapid technological advancement of the mid- to late-twentieth century made human spaceflight a reality, the field has shown some resistance to cultural change over the same period. Ideas about the body in space and the future of humanity are at the core of the development of human spaceflight. This book examines how these have been constructed as specifically a male body and a heterosexual future. These presumptive norms are not unusual, but this book argues that the unique attributes of outer space can be productively used in advancing theories of culture beyond the extra-terrestrial

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-28
Mått:160 x 237 x 18 mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Radical Cultural Studies
Antal sidor:158
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786607652

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Kat Deerfield is a Research Associate at the School of Social Science, Cardiff University

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Gender, Sexuality and Space Culture offers a distinctive, insightful investigation of space culture, interrogating its gendered and heteronormative underpinnings. It explores how problematic understandings of gender and sexuality have informed the structuring and organisation of spaceflight and the broader culture it sustains. In a rich examination of the spatiality and temporality of space culture, Deerfield uses the resources of feminist and queer theory to illuminate this crucial, but largely neglected, sphere of gender and sexual normativity. She also suggests how critical encounters with this domain may, in turn, enrich queer and feminist theory, helping to re-orientate towards more utopian futures. Deerfield’s book is a valuable contribution to and extension of the critical gaze of cultural studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Heavenly Bodies / 1. Space for Women / 2. Locating Women in Space Art and Interstellar Messages / 3. Taking Feminist Geography into Orbit / 4. Sex in Space / 5. Sexual Culture in Space / 6. Retro- and Reproductive Futures / 7. Queering Space, Queering the Future / 8. Critical Optimism for Space Culture