Essays about: "visagéité"

Found 1 essay containing the word visagéité.

  1. 1. Vision and visibility of women in technoscience : On the participation of women in the social imaginary of technoscience and popular media

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yvonne Margaret Parrey; [2019]
    Keywords : Woman question in science; the science question in feminism; technoscience; STEM; visibility; faceicity; affect; the gaze; BBC; European Commission; Science it’s a girl thing!; visagéité;

    Abstract : After situating my interest in issues of women’s participation in technoscience, starting withmy experiences in the 1970s, this thesis turns to consider women’s visibility in more recenttechnoscience, in the light of European Commission figures indicating a slower progressionfor women into the more prestigious positions in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics) than the Commission had hoped.Two media case studies are presented focusing on the visibility of women in the EuropeanUnion (including the United Kingdom). READ MORE