Geek chic : smart women in popular culture / edited by Sherrie A. Inness. - New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media -- Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on ... -- Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science -- "You can see things that other people can't" -- "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence ... -- Super slacker girls -- Back to the future -- Dangerous minds -- Raising the bar -- Savvy women, boy's school politics, and the west wing -- Heckling Hillary.

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Women in popular culture--United States.
Gifted women.
Women in mass media.
Mass media--United States.
Intellect--Social aspects--United States.

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