Fan Girls and the Media

Adrienne Trier-Bieniek is professor of sociology at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. She is the coeditor of Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader and author of Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos (Scarecrow Press 2013).

• Acknowledgments Introduction - Finding Feminist Fandom in Orange is the New BlackAdrienne Trier-BieniekChapter 1 - “Sci-Fi and Skimpy Outfits”: Negotiating Objectification, Gendered Boundaries, and Authenticity within the Star Trek FandomSarah M. Corse and Jaime HartlessChapter 2 - A New Dawn Breaks: Rewriting Gender Wrongs Through TwilightFan FictionPenelope EateChapter 3 - Coveting Sarah Jessica Parker: When Postfeminism Meets Commodity FeminismGigi McNamaraChapter 4 - Members of the Tribe: Marginal Identities and the Female Comedy Fan Community Joanne GilbertChapter 5 - “When a Man Knows a Woman”: Understanding the Fan Appeal of Avenging-Women Written by Men”Lara StacheChapter 6 - Cultural Production and Digital Resilience: Examining Female Gamers Use of Social Media to Participate in Video Game CultureKishonna GrayChapter 7 - The New Housewife: Gender Roles and Perceptions of The Real Housewives of AtlantaNatasha HowardChapter 8 - Writing Her Story: Matriarchy through the Male Gaze in Tyler Perry’s Film The Family That PreysChristopher K. Jackson and Adria Y. GoldmanIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

The essays Trier-Bieniek has collected examine a wide range of popular culture and media topics. . . .Some of the chapters—e.g., ‘Members of the Tribe,’‘Cultural Production and Digital Resilience,’‘Writing Her Story,’ and ‘The New Housewife’—explore gender, race, and class in contemporary popular culture, adding to scholarship that often implicitly foregrounds whiteness. Though the feminist literature includes work on many of the pop culture phenomena discussed here—Real Housewives, Buffy, Star Trek, Orange Is the New Black—this collection will be useful to those new to feminist media studies. Summing Up: Recommended…Lower-division undergraduates; general readers.