Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture by Kat Deerfield;

Author:Kat Deerfield;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2012-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Toilet Provisions, Gender and Sexuality

In Choosing the Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts, former NASA flight surgeon Patricia Santy makes the bold claim that the design of ‘private’ toilet facilities was the primary reason that NASA allowed women in the Space Shuttle programme in the early 1980s. Santy writes:

The issue of privacy, linked as it was to sexuality and personal hygiene, had long been a big factor in NASA’s reluctance to include women as astronauts, and the development of the private toilet – probably more than any other reason – encouraged NASA to believe that females could finally (and without embarrassment to the agency) be integrated into Shuttle missions in a way impossible during earlier missions.[28]

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