Geek Chic

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).

• 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

"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