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Toys and Tools in Pink Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology / Carol Colatrella.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colatrella, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Social aspects.
- Sex role.
- Women in science.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Women in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 246 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- 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 influence cultural stereotypes of gender in prescribing salient professional and personal codes of conduct in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields--From publisher description.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-7087-5
- OCLC:
- 868220279
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