Enterprising Women
Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth

Camille Bacon-Smith

352 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus.
Paper 1992 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1379-9 | $26.50s | £17.50 | Add to shopping cart

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

"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."—Women's Review of Books

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