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001 2010040892
003 DLC
005 20110728082301.0
008 101001s2011 ohu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780814211472 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780814292488 (cd-rom)
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050 00 $aPN56.5.W64$bC65 2011
082 00 $a809/.933522$222
100 1 $aColatrella, Carol.
245 10 $aToys and tools in pink :$bcultural narratives of gender, science, and technology /$cCarol Colatrella.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$cc2011.
300 $aix, 246 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $aAnalyzes 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.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in motion pictures.
650 0 $aWomen in science.
650 0 $aSex role$xSocial aspects.