TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article’s principle aim is the investigation into the underdeveloped field of lesbian audience research. It theorises the relationship between the text of Xena Warrior Princess a television programme and a fanclub called Xenasubtexttalk that evolved on the Internet. The researcher has drawn on evidence from a case study and participant observation over a twelve month period, the gathering of postings from bulletin boards and continuing interviews lasting between one and two hours conducted over the Internet. This has revealed some of the practices and rituals of two self‐identified lesbians who participated in this fanclub. Informed by a postmodernist feminist framework several issues of methodology are discussed. The main theme in this study’s findings is that these fans have produced through the appropriation of this particular text, biographies that represent a “coming out narrative”.
VL  - 23
IS  - 1/2
SN  - 0144-333X
DO  - 10.1108/01443330310790453
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790453
AU  - Hanmer Rosalind
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - Lesbian subtext talk: experiences of the Internet chat
T2  - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 80
EP  - 106
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -