She's Such a Geek is an anthology of essays about female geeks, edited by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders. The official website for the book is at shessuchageek.com.
Outline/contributors[]
Growing Up Nerd[]
- Kory Wells, "Really good for a girl"
- Jamie Schoenewies, "Dial-up Desire"
- Jessica Dickinson Goodman, "High school politics"
- Diana Husmann, "The dress"
High Tech[]
- Ellen Spertus, "Professor in a circuit-board corset"
- Wendy Seltzer, "The overloaded activist"
- Thida Cornes, "Gimp Geek"
- Violet Blue, "The hacker's guide to what's in her own panties"
In the lab[]
- Corie Ralston, "The making of a synchrotron geek"
- Suzanne E. Franks, "Suzy the Computer vs Dr. Sexy"
- Roopa Ramamoorthi, "All our boys go to the IT industry in America"
- Nina Simone Dudnik, "Sex and the single (woman) biologist"
- Charlie Anders, "I am wonk, hear me analyze"
Geek, interrupted[]
- Kristin Abkemeier, "Job security"
- Elisabeth Severson, "{women}n{mathematic}={me, at least}"
- Jenn Shreve, "Geek, interrupted"
- Aomawa Shields, "Universe: the sequel"
Games[]
- Morgan Romine, "Fantasy to frag doll: the story of a gamer princess"
- Paula Gaetos, "Fatality!"
- Quinn Norton, "Dreaming in unison"
- Mara Poulsen, "Why BMX XXX sucks"
Superheroes[]
- Devin Kalile Grayson, "Sidekicks"
- Michelle Villanueva, "Neville-mania"
- Annalee Newitz, "When Diana Prince take off her glasses"
Reviews/responses/etc[]
- Authors@Google talk on YouTube
- Video response by Dawn Sumner on YouTube
- She's Such a Geek Photo Competition at Inkling magazing
- Amazon customer reviews