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1. Project Muse.

Description

1. 1 online resource (ix, 246 p. )

Summary

1. 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.

Uniform title

1. Toys and Tools in Pink (Online)
2. Book collections on Project MUSE.

Alternative title

1. Toys and Tools in Pink (Online)

Subject

1. Sex role > Social aspects
2. Women in science
3. Women in motion pictures
4. Women in literature

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Source of description (note)

1. Description based on print version record.

Author

1. Colatrella, Carol.

Title

1. Toys and Tools in Pink [electronic resource] : Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology / Carol Colatrella.

Imprint

1. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Series

1. Book collections on Project MUSE.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Note

1. Description based on print version record.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

Added author

1. Project Muse.

LCCN

1. 2010040892