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Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps : Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972-2004.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421403946
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Integrating Women into the Astronaut CorpsDDC classification:
  • 629.450082/0973
LOC classification:
  • TL789.8.U5 F628 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Beyond Rosie the Riveter -- 2 Wilma Deering Meets Captain Janeway -- 3 "The Damn Crazy Things! -- 4 Making Space -- 5 "The Strange Ones -- 6 Defying Gravity -- 7 "NASA Sutra -- 8 Uninvited Heroics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
Summary: In documenting these events, Foster offers a broader understanding of the difficulties in sexually integrating any workplace, even when the organization approaches the situation with as positive an outlook and as strong a motivation as did NASA.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Beyond Rosie the Riveter -- 2 Wilma Deering Meets Captain Janeway -- 3 "The Damn Crazy Things! -- 4 Making Space -- 5 "The Strange Ones -- 6 Defying Gravity -- 7 "NASA Sutra -- 8 Uninvited Heroics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

In documenting these events, Foster offers a broader understanding of the difficulties in sexually integrating any workplace, even when the organization approaches the situation with as positive an outlook and as strong a motivation as did NASA.

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