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Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America Paperback - 1997

by Constance Penley

In this investigation and celebration of America's fascination with space, Constance Penley, a professor of film studies and women's studies at the University of California, illustrates issues of sex and sexuality in the world of science and technology and examines the widely held prejudices against women in this area. 20 photos.


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This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show's fans who rewrite its storylines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation be accompanied by social and sexual experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

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  • Title Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America
  • Author Constance Penley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, LONDON
  • Date 1997-06-17
  • ISBN 9780860916178 / 0860916170
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Popular culture - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97010902
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.91

Media reviews

“Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Penley’s hands, popular science is a place to launch an inquiry into moral, cultural and political stakes in a world ‘where no man has gone before.’”—Donna Haraway

NASA/TREK is happily both enjoyable and insightful, and explores some intricate correspondences between science and sex. Among other things it offers a new and persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: ‘slash’ fiction.”—Samuel R. Delany

Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/1997, Page 622

About the author

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.
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