Abstract
The book’s introductory chapter centers on the importance of exploring fandom in conjunction with feminism and researching feminist women fans more specifically. The book contributes to three areas of academic scholarship: studies on identity, feminism, and fandom. Identity scholarship primarily focuses on the works that shed light on the ways in which individuals organize, represent, and reaffirm their identities through interactions with others. Research on feminism and fandom focuses on the historical changes and shifts the two communities have undergone throughout the years, such as the transition from the margins of society to the mainstream, and the rifts within each of them. The chapter also discusses the methodological decisions I made during the fieldwork and when writing up the results. Examples include the motivation to focus on the fans of Star Wars and Doctor Who and to conduct in-depth interviews. This chapter also includes methodological considerations alongside the reasons behind using terminology such as “feminist women fans” or “women of marginalized ethnicity.” Ultimately, this chapter establishes “fan” and “feminist” as identities that matter to the women who proclaim them while introducing the conflicts that might occur when espousing both identities in conjunction.
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Fan-made storylines inspired by the original diegesis.
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Creating costumes and dressing up as characters from the fan content.
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Terms such as “nerd,” “geek,” and “fans” are frequently used interchangeably in scholarship despite their different meanings. A nerd is typically an “odd” outsider who lacks social skills, a geek is the “brainy” type who is interested in science and technology, and a fan is a passionate consumer of popular culture content. My focus is on fans, but I will sometimes use affiliated terms such as geeks and nerds when citing other works or using quotes by my interviewees, as these terms are frequently intertwined with each other.
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The series was canceled in 1989, returned as a television film in 1996, and then rebooted in 2005 and has been airing ever since.
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Yodovich, N. (2022). Introducing Feminism and Fandom. In: Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom. Palgrave Fan Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04079-5_1
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