Nanotechnology Education and Gender in American Popular Culture. Kathleen Goonan's &quote;Queen City Jazz&quote;, Neal Stephenson's &quote;The Diamond Age&quote; and Other Nanonarratives

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: Understanding gender as a performative act defining womanliness and manliness, this paper analyses why women are always linked with nanotechnology education in science fiction as a traditionally masculine genre. By concentrating mainly on the novels "e;Queen City Jazz"e; and "e;Diamond Age"e; its focus lies not only on the way in which the female pupils are educated, but also on how womanliness is defined and connected with nanotechnology.