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(dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.

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, year = 1944 , author = John Bristol Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = , isbn = , page = 31 , passage = Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans . }}

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, year = 1953 , date = August , author = , title = , magazine= Thrilling Wonder Stories , url = , volume = 42 , issue = 3 , page = 133 , passage = So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans , I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am. }}

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, year = 2010 , author = Eleanor Arnason , title = Mammoths of the Great Plains , url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wN2gPlvI0sMC&pg=PA120 , isbn = 9781604863826 , page = 120 , passage = When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans ." Gay people were in the closet. }}

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