Popular Culture Review Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2010 | Page 53

Girls Go Slash/Boys Go Bang: Gender, Canon and Creativity within Warhammer 40,000 Fanfiction Introduction In recent years there has been a growing interest in the gendered nature of fandom, with a number of commentators highlighting how, all things being equal, males and females are both attracted to different types of fandom and engage in different sorts of fan production (if they engage at