| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program. By Margaret A. Weitekamp. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv, 232 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7994-9.)
Sometimes the stars are not in alignment, or so it seems when learning of the experiences of women in aviation and space. Margaret A. Weitekamp's excellent monograph about the women who wanted to be America's first female astronauts explains why their immediate quest in the 1960s failed but how they made history anyway.	1
That right from the start American women wanted to be astronauts should hardly come as a surprise; that they were deliberately denied the opportunity during the early years of the U.S. space program will be equally unsurprising to Journal readers. It is the how and why of this midcentury story that is so fascinating. Did women—do women—have the "right stuff" when it comes to technology? Could a woman be an astronaut? Should a woman be an astronaut? An engineer? Or train for any professional career, for that matter?	. . .

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