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Smart Women in Popular Culture

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Paperback | 1 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"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

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Cultural Studies Popular Culture Miscellaneous Items Media Studies Psychology Social Psychology Age Groups

Age Groups for Children Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media	p. 1
Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes on the Gilmore Girls	p. 11
Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television	p. 31
"You Can See Things that Other People Can't": Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria	p. 49
"Pretty Smart": Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons	p. 65
Super Slacker Girls: Dropping Out but Divinely Inspired	p. 85
Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched	p. 103
Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television	p. 121
Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes	p. 137
Savvy Women, Old Boys' School Politics, and The West Wing	p. 153
Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton	p. 171
Contributors	p. 189
Index	p. 193
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