Femininity and fandom: the dual-stigmatisation of female comic book fans
| Autor: | Stephanie Orme |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Large population Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Science fiction fandom Dual (grammatical number) Art Comics 060202 literary studies Femininity Convention 0602 languages and literature Narrative Fandom business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 7:403-416 |
| ISSN: | 2150-4865 2150-4857 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21504857.2016.1219958 |
| Popis: | Media portrayals of comic book fandom routinely depict the comics community as a masculine space, one in which the female fan is an anomaly. Yet, women reportedly represent a growing number of comic book purchasers and convention attendees. If women are, in fact, such a large contingent of the comic book fan community, then why do these gendered stereotypes of female fans persist? Moreover, why do we continually see narratives about the ‘exotic’ female comics fan if women are such a large population within comics culture? I theorise that many female comic book fans render themselves invisible in the comics community out of fear of stigmatisation, from both non-comics fans as well as male members of comics fandom. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, I use semi-structured interviews to explore how female comics fans in the United States experience fandom as members of a culture that is coded as masculine. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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