to James Blish’s Black Easter (1968), but the female mad scientist was relegated to low budget movies and cheap cartoons. Where the male mad scientist became a meaningful metaphor, the female ...

There aren’t enough women scientists in the real world or ... Her experiments often seem to run into mad scientist territory with her obsessions with creating new life like Lemongrab, animating ...

Cartoons often depict scientists as evil baddies conducting dangerous or unethical experiments — but even if shown to be goodies, they will almost undoubtedly be male. However, those children who have ...