Toys and Tools in Pink : Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology /

Analyzes female character types that recur in fictional narratives in print, on television, and in the cinema: female criminals and detectives, mothers who practice medicine, and "babe scientists," among others. It also investigates how narrative settings and plots both subsume and influen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colatrella, Carol (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in science.
Women in motion pictures.
Women in literature.
Sex role > Social aspects.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in mass media.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Women in mass media.
Women in technology.
Stereotypes dans les medias.
Stereotypes dans la litterature.
Stereotypes au cinema.
Rôle selon le sexe dans les medias.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Femmes dans les medias.
Femmes en technologie.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Femmes au cinema.
Femmes dans les sciences.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : cultural narratives and the "leaky pipeline"
  • The ethics of feminist science
  • Female criminals and detectives
  • Mothers and medicine
  • Babe scientist : science and sex
  • Femininity, feminism, and technology
  • Conclusion : children's narratives.

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