Selected Bibliography

 

Images of Women Scientists in the Media

 

Corbett, Julia B. 2001. Women, scientists, agitators: Magazine portrayal of Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn. Journal of Communication:720-747.

 

Elena, Alberto. 1993. Exemplary Lives: Biographies of Scientists on the Screen. Public Understanding of Science 2:205-223.

 

———. 1997. Skirts in the Lab: Madame Curie and the Image of the Woman Scientist in the Feature Film. Public Understanding of Science 6:269-278.

 

Fisch, Shalom M., William Yotive, Susan K. McCann Brown, M. Scott Garner, and Lisa Chen. 1997. Science on Saturday Morning: Children's Perceptions of Science in Educational and

Non-Educational Cartoons. Journal of Educational Media 23 (2/3):157-167.

 

Frank, Scott. 2003. Reel Reality: Science Consultants in Hollywood. Science as Culture 12 (4):427-469.

 

LaFollette, Marcel C. 1988. Eyes on the stars: Images of women scientists in popular magazines Science, Technology and Human Values 13 (3/4):262-275.

 

———. 1990. Making science our own: Public images of science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Long, Marilee, Greg Boiarsky, and Greg Thayer. 2001. Gender and racial counter-stereotypes in science education television: A content analysis. Public Understanding of Science 10:255-269.

 

Shachar, Orly. 2000. Spotlighting Women Scientists in the Press: Tokenism in Science Journalism. Public Understanding of Science 9:347-358.

 

Steinke, Jocelyn. 1997. A portrait of a woman as a scientist: Breaking down barriers created by gender-role stereotypes. Public Understanding of Science 6:409-428.

 

———. 1998. Connecting theory and practice: Women scientist role models in television programming. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 42:142-151.

 

———. 1999. Women scientist role models on screen: A case study of Contact. Science Communication 21 (2):111-136.

 

———. 2004. Science in cyberspace: Science and engineering World Wide Web sites for girls. Public Understanding of Science 13 (1):7-30.

 

———. 2005. Cultural representations of gender and science: Portrayals of female scientists and engineers in popular films. Science Communication 27:27-63.

 

Steinke, Jocelyn, and Marilee Long. 1996. A lab of her own? Portrayals of female characters on children's educational science programs. Science Communication 18 (2):91-115.