Dating Amy Farrah Fowler: Essentializing Femininity and Othering Women in STEM

dc.contributor.authorBlodgett, Bridget M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T16:17:58Z
dc.date.available2017-10-18T16:17:58Z
dc.date.issued2015-10
dc.description.abstractAmy Farrah Fowler is one of the standout female characters of The Big Bang Theory. Amy is a dedicated neuroscientist and is often characterized as being the female equivalent to Sheldon’s presentation of male geekiness. She is an interesting character for illustrating the problems that women’s representation in geek media. Amy is often portrayed as being as smart as Sheldon in an area that is just as hard a science. But when we see her as a character one of her defining traits has been her lack of female friends and the “real” experiences of womanhood. In the discussion of why there aren’t more women game designers in the #1ReasonWhy twitter discussion multiple women in technology reported that others have said they can’t actually be women or are so weird their experiences are discounted. Women in STEM fields are strongly othered by the group whose interests they share and also told they can’t identify or fit in with other women by those same people (Beede, 2011).en_US
dc.description.urihttps://spir.aoir.org/index.php/spir/article/view/1039/695en_US
dc.format.extent4 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedingsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2639K653
dc.identifier.citationBlodgett, B. M. (2015). Dating Amy Farrah Fowler: Essentializing Femininity and Othering Women in STEM. 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, 1-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7341
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisher16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchersen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjectwomen in STEMen_US
dc.subjectTV fandomen_US
dc.subjectThe Big Bang Theoryen_US
dc.subjectAmy Farrah Fowleren_US
dc.subjectwomen in technologyen_US
dc.subjectTV charactersen_US
dc.subjectgeek mediaen_US
dc.subjectwomen in gaming industryen_US
dc.titleDating Amy Farrah Fowler: Essentializing Femininity and Othering Women in STEMen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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