Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture

1. Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media
Sherrie A. Inness

2. Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes on the Gilmore Girls
Karin E. Westman

3. Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television
Lorna Jowett

4. “You Can See Things that Other People Can’t”: Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria
Cindy Conaway

5. “Pretty Smart”: Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons
Rebecca C. Hains

6. Super Slacker Girls: Dropping Out but Divinely Inspired
Michele Paule

7. Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched
Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, Linda Manning

8. Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television
Leigh H. Edwards

9. Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes
Sharon Sutherland, Sarah Swan

10. Savvy Women, Old Boys’ School Politics, and The West Wing
Beth Berila

11. Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Jeannie Banks Thomas

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Feminism, Community and Environmental Psychology