Geek chic
Subtitle: smart women in popular culture
By: edited by Sherrie A. Inness
Contributors: Inness, Sherrie A
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781403979025; 9781403979032
Subjects: Women in popular culture -- United States; Gifted women; Women in mass media; Mass media -- United States; Intellect -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media; title: Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on ...; title: Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science; title: "You can see things that other people can't"; title: "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence ...; title: Super slacker girls; title: Back to the future; title: Dangerous minds; title: Raising the bar; title: Savvy women, boy's school politics, and the west wing; title: Heckling Hillary