Download or read book Nanotechnology Education and Gender in American Popular Culture. Kathleen Goonan’s "Queen City Jazz", Neal Stephenson’s "The Diamond Age" and Other Nanonarratives written by Carola Katharina Bauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 "Queen City Jazz" and "Diamond Age" 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.