Geek chic : smart women in popular culture /
Inness, Sherrie A.
New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media / Sherrie A. Inness -- Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on the Gilmore Girls / Karin E. Westman -- Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science on television / Lorna Jowett -- "You can see things that other people can't": changing images of the girl with glasses, from Gidget to Daria / Cindy Conoway -- "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence in girl power cartoons / Rebecca C. Hains -- Super slacker girls: dropping out but divinely inspired / Michele Paule -- Back to the future: the brilliant witches in Bewitched / Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, and Linda Manning -- Dangerous minds: the woman professor on television/ Leigh H. Edwards -- Raising the bar: brilliant women lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan --  Savvy women, boy's school politics, and the West Wing / Beth Berila -- Heckling Hillary: jokes, late-night television, and Hillary rodham Clinton / Jeannie Banks Thomas..
Women in popular culture
Gifted women.
Women in mass media.
Mass media
Intellect