Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403979030 ISBN 13: 9781403979032

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

Geek Chic 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 Hi... Full description

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Product Description:

Mainstream society has often had a deeply rooted fear of intelligent women. Why do brilliant women make society ill at ease? Focusing on the US, Sherrie Inness and contributors explore this question in the context of the last two decades, arguing that more intelligent women are appearing in popular culture than ever before.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1403979030
• ISBN 13: 9781403979032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213
• Editor: Inness S.