Geek chic : smart women in popular culture

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Title:

Author:

Inness, Sherrie A.

ISBN:

9781403979032

9781403979025

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Physical Description:

viii, 202 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media -- Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on ... -- Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science -- "You can see things that other people can't" -- "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence ... -- Super slacker girls -- Back to the future -- Dangerous minds -- Raising the bar -- Savvy women, boy's school politics, and the west wing -- Heckling Hillary.

Subject Term:

Gifted women.

Women in mass media.

Mass media -- United States.

Intellect -- Social aspects -- United States.

Added Author:

Inness, Sherrie A.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006051029-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006051029-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006051029-t.html

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Summary

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.