Geek Chic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media

   • Sherrie A. Inness

   Pages 1-9

3. Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes on the Gilmore Girls

   • Karin E. Westman

   Pages 11-30

4. Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television

   • Lorna Jowett

   Pages 31-48

5. “You Can See Things that Other People Can’t”: Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria

   • Cindy Conaway

   Pages 49-63

6. “Pretty Smart”: Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons

   • Rebecca C. Hains

   Pages 65-84

7. Super Slacker Girls: Dropping Out but Divinely Inspired

   • Michele Paule

   Pages 85-102

8. Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched

   • Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, Linda Manning

   Pages 103-119

9. Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television

   • Leigh H. Edwards

   Pages 121-136

10. Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes

    • Sharon Sutherland, Sarah Swan

    Pages 137-152

11. Savvy Women, Old Boys’ School Politics, and The West Wing

    • Beth Berila

    Pages 153-169

12. Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton

    • Jeannie Banks Thomas

    Pages 171-187

13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-202

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Mainstream society has often had a deeply rooted fear of intelligent women. Why do brilliant women make society ill at ease? Focusing on the US, Sherrie Inness and contributors explore this question in the context of the last two decades, arguing that more intelligent women are appearing in popular culture than ever before.

• communication
• culture
• gender
• gender studies
• media
• new media
• politics
• society
• Stereotype
• television
• women
• childhood studies

"A fun read, and a thought-provoking one at that." - Curled Up With a Good Book

"[Inness] does an excellent job of showing how long girls culture has been shaping the gender of American women and how pervasively it does so." - The Lion and the Unicorn

"A significant contribution to girls studies." - Signs"Recommended." - CHOICE

SHERRIE A. INNESS is Professor of English at Miami University, USA. She is the author/editor of over a dozen books including Action Chicks (Palgrave 2004) and Secret Ingredients (Palgrave 2005).

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