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

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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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Main Author: Colatrella, Carol (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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.
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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
"Literary and historical case studies in Toys and Tools in Pink examine issues of women's abilities in, access to, and management of science and technology. These issues appear in debates among university faculty, politicians, and public policy analysts concerned about women's participation in STEM fields. Current analyses of diverse fictions and films demonstrate a continuing interest in women's place in science and technology and also create new, evolving understandings of femininity and masculinity that revise earlier stereotypes"--Publisher's description
"Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs work collaboratively to connect education and research at the institutional, national, and global levels. But what role do women play in STEM? In this ... timely book, Carol Colatrella responds to the under-representation of women in STEM by considering how gender inflects literary and media representations. In her analysis of fictional and cinematic texts that reference STEM, she investigates cultural tensions concerning sex roles--tensions that continue to be influential in today's world. Toys and Tools in Pink 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 STEM fields."
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780814270875
Access:Open Access

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