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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Who Remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, Gender, and the Media
- 1 Beauty and the Geek: Changing Gender Stereotypes on the Gilmore Girls
- 2 Lab Coats and Lipstick: Smart Women Reshape Science on Television
- 3 “You Can See Things that Other People Can’t”: Changing Images of the Girl with Glasses, from Gidget to Daria
- 4 “Pretty Smart”: Subversive Intelligence in Girl Power Cartoons
- 5 Super Slacker Girls: Dropping Out but Divinely Inspired
- 6 Back to the Future: The Brilliant Witches in Bewitched
- 7 Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television
- 8 Raising the Bar: Brilliant Women Lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes
- 9 Savvy Women, Old Boys’ School Politics, and The West Wing
- 10 Heckling Hillary: Jokes, Late-Night Television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Contributors
- Index