Sherrie A. Inness

Geek Chic

Smart Women in Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Inness, S.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essayists in this book demonstrate how the popular media both repeatedly affirms stereotypes of femininity, while paradoxically challenging the stigmatization of smart women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7903-2
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781403979032
• ISBN-10: 1403979030
• Artikelnr.: 22729942

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media; S.A.Inness Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes in the Gilmore Girls Century; K.E.Westman Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television; L.Jowett You Can See Things That Other People Can't: Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria; C.Conaway 'Pretty Smart': Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons; R.C.Hains Super Slacker Girls: Dropping out but Divinely Inspired; M.Paule Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched; L.Baughman, L.Manning & A.Burr-Miller Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television; L.H. Edwards Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes; S.Sutherland & S.Swan Savvy Women, Old Boy's School Politics, and The West Wing; B.Berila Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton; J.B.Thomas

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Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media; S.A.Inness Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes in the Gilmore Girls Century; K.E.Westman Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television; L.Jowett You Can See Things That Other People Can't: Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria; C.Conaway 'Pretty Smart': Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons; R.C.Hains Super Slacker Girls: Dropping out but Divinely Inspired; M.Paule Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched; L.Baughman, L.Manning & A.Burr-Miller Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television; L.H. Edwards Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes; S.Sutherland & S.Swan Savvy Women, Old Boy's School Politics, and The West Wing; B.Berila Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton; J.B.Thomas

Rezensionen

"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