Lesbian subtext talk: experiences of the Internet chat
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 January 2003
Abstract
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”.
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Citation
Hanmer, R. (2003), "Lesbian subtext talk: experiences of the Internet chat", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 23 No. 1/2, pp. 80-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790453
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:MCB UP Ltd
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