Sherrie A. Inness

Broschiertes Buch

Geek Chic

Smart Women in Popular Culture

Herausgeber: Inness, S.

Beschreibung

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. Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essayists in this book demonstrate how the popular media both repeatedly affirms stereotypes of femininity, while paradoxically challenging the stigmatization of smart women.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7903-2
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781403979032
• ISBN-10: 1403979030
• Artikelnr.: 22729942

Rezensionen

"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