Women in STEM on Television

Ashley Lynn Carlson is an associate professor of English at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana. She has published essays on a variety of topics ranging from nineteenth-century literature to contemporary popular culture.

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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)

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)

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