Abstract With the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Cold War “race for space” officially began, and in the United States discussions arose concerning women’s role in helping meet the increased need for specialists in science and technology, including whether or not they should be trained as astronauts. These debates often revolved around femininity, a construct that at the time was rarely associated with scientific or technological intellect. Cold War anxiety over American femininity also manifested in visual culture. In this article, I focus specifically on fashion layouts from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar featuring photographs by Richard Avedon, William Klein, and Bruce Davidson, arguing that in the early 1960s, space age apparatus and motifs were juxtaposed with ultra-feminine fashion models, which was symptomatic of how the possibility of women’s involvement with space exploration was being channeled into the socially sanctioned realm of feminine consumption.

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前无古人的女性：女性气质、时尚摄影和太空竞赛

摘要 随着苏联于 1957 年发射人造卫星，冷战“太空竞赛”正式开始，美国开始讨论女性在帮助满足对科技专家日益增长的需求方面的作用，包括她们是否应该接受宇航员培训。这些争论通常围绕着女性气质展开，而这一概念在当时很少与科学或技术智力联系在一起。对美国女性气质的冷战焦虑也体现在视觉文化上。在这篇文章中，我特别关注 Vogue 和 Harper's Bazaar 的时尚布局，其中包括 Richard Avedon、William Klein 和 Bruce Davidson 的照片，认为在 1960 年代初期，太空时代的设备和图案与超女性化的时装模特并列，