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A study of the worldwide community of fans of Star Trek and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favorite series. This community includes people from all walks of life—housewives, librarians, secretaries, and professors of medieval literature. Ninety percent of its members are women.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 352
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Contemporary Ethnography
Publication Date:
01 December 1991
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812213799
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Media studies
"Enterprising Women offers a picture of one of the few models around for female community and self-affirmation. Rather than accepting the passive female images and consumer values purveyed by most TV shows, women fan-fiction writers have adapted television to their own purposes."