Gender and the Race for Space

Gender and the Race for SpaceThis book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti communist) masculinity, which appearedon the surface anywayto resolve not only an American crisis of masculinity but helped win the Cold War on an ideological and popular level.

Merkur proposes an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experiences as regression to the solipsism of earliest infancy

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This pious fervor eventually was adopted widely by middle-class Presbyterians and Congregationalists and constituted an acceptance by elites of tempered

This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology

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her racial identity can be forsaken so long as she leaves Philadelphia—and her sister—behind

Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology

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idealistic individualist of conventional literary history

Mark’s brother Robert unexpectedly returns home from Australia

Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy descriptions of the buildings where characters live

Tapper argues that