moved to Nevada, where he worked in a brothel and
as a bartender. Lorena later made the news when she
assaulted her mother.
Further Reading
Davoli, Joanmarie. “Reconsidering the Conse-
quences of an Insanity Acquittal.”New England
Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement31, no. 1.
(Winter, 2005): 3-14.
Junod, Tom. “Forrest Stump.”Gentleman’s Quarterly
65, no. 3 (1995): 230-237.
Pershing, Linda. “His Wife Seized His Prize and Cut
It to Size: Folk and Popular Commentary on
Lorena Bobbitt.”National Women’s Studies Associa-
tion Journal8, no. 3 (Fall, 1996): 1-35.
Gerald P. Fisher
See also Long Island Lolita case; Marriage and di-
vorce; Tailhook incident; Women’s rights.
Bondar, Roberta
Identification Canadian neurologist and
astronaut
Born December 4, 1945; Sault Ste. Marie,
Ontario, Canada
Dr. Bondar’s research into space medicine and the neurolog-
ical effects of spaceflight for NASA led to her serving on the
space shuttleDiscoverymission STS-42 in 1992, becom-
ing the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in
space.
Roberta Bondar holds a bachelor’s degree in zool-
ogy and agriculture from the University of Guelph
(1968), a master’s in experimental pathology from
the University of Western Ontario (1971), a Ph.D.
in neurobiology from the University of Toronto
(1974), and a medical degree from McMaster Uni-
versity (1977). After a brief stint as a teacher and
several appointments in prestigious research facili-
ties in both Canada and the United States, she be-
gan an extensive investigation under the auspices
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion (NASA) into how long-term spaceflights might
help researchers to understand the causes and
treatment of catastrophic neurological disorders
ranging from stroke to Parkinson’s disease. She was
one of the six original Canadian astronauts (and
the only woman) accepted into the Canadian Space
Agency in 1984 to begin the rigorous preparation
to fly in the shuttle program. Eight years later, she
flew as the international astronaut on the space
shuttleDiscover yin January, 1992, conducting life
science experiments centered on vision and nerve
stress testing.
After her retirement from the space agency in
September, 1992, Bondar devoted enormous energy
to her interest in the preservation of North Amer-
ica’s most extreme and most threatened ecosystems
(for instance, the Canadian Arctic and the American
Southwest), a passion that she expressed in a series
of stunning photography books that became best
sellers in both Canada and the United States. (As a
child, Bondar had learned photography from her fa-
ther and was long fascinated by the process of vision:
Her original research was in neuro-ophthalmology.)
In addition, Bondar developed a revolutionary
approach to business thinking based on her long
study of neurological adjustments to the particular
stresses of zero-gravity travel. Her visionary ap-
proach examined business as a dynamic and corpo-
rate success as a kind of biological adaptation system
that depends as much on inspiration and charisma
as it does on responding to changing conditions, us-
ing the model of an often hostile space environment
to shape her conception of the high-pressure corpo-The Nineties in America Bondar, Roberta 109
Roberta Bondar.(Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center/NASA)