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Women in STEM on television : critical essays

Author
Carlson, Ashley Lynn, 1981-
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018.
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1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)
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Contents
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction (Ashley Lynn Carlson); Achievements, Gaps and the "Achievement Gap": STEM in Children's Programming (Ashley Lynn Carlson and Hope J. Crowell); The Doctors Who Waited: The Lonely Woman Scientist Trope in Geek TV (Bridget M. Blodgett and Anastasia Salter); Girl Geniuses: Anti-Intellectual Stereotypes of Women in STEM Careers in Contemporary Televisual Culture (JZ Long); "One of the Guys": Female Engineers on Television (Ashley Lynn Carlson), STEM and Diversity on Primetime Television: The Representation of Gender and Race in The 100 (Natalie Krikowa)"We have to know our biology": Power, Patriarchy and the Body in Orphan Black (Lauren Riccelli Zwicky); "Not everyone's cut out for Hollywood": "The Iron Ceiling" in Marvel's Agent Carter (Lisa K. Perdigao); A Bad Case of the Feels: Emotion Versus Reason on Blindspot (Erin Nicholes); Femininity and Forensics: Silent Witness and the Representation of the Female Pathologist (Laura Foster and Helen McKenzie), and When the Woman Cuts: The Figure of the Female Medical on CSI: Miami and Crossing Jordan (Cary M.J. Elza)A Woman in a Man's (Fictional) World: Considering the Importance of Dr. Molly Hooper in the BBC's Modern Adaptation of Sherlock (Jennifer Phillips); The River, the Rock, the Relative and the Returned: Depictions of Women Scientists in Doctor Who's Moffat Era (Kristine Larsen); About the Contributors; Index
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ISBN
9781476632803 (electronic bk.)
1476632804 (electronic bk.)
9781476669410
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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