Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781403979025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 202 str.

Sherrie A. Inness

Opis

Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essays in this book demonstrate how the popular media repeatedly affirms stereotypes of femininity while paradoxically challenging the stigmatization of smart women. Contributors salute a wide range of popular characters and real female role models, from Daria to Hillary Rodham Clinton, weaving in references to television shows like Gilmore Girls and analyses of classic icons like Sabrina.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).