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Swoon is a prehistory of the fangirl. From the Byromaniacs of Regency London to the screamers of Beatlemania, it revisits six defining moments in book, film and music history through the eyes of the girls and women who gave birth to pop culture as we know it today. Far from passive consumers, these women were tastemakers, visionaries and cultural disruptors. Their obsessions shaped literary canons, built Hollywood icons and turned musicians into messiahs - long before social media came along. But with power came panic, especially when female fans and male stars were involved. Fandom became a moral and cultural battleground. What was at stake was women's right to want things they weren't supposed to want, feel things they weren't supposed to feel and express all these things loudly, shamelessly and in public.

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Bea Martinez-Gatell is a writer and pop culture historian. She studied film and literature at the University of Warwick and for an MA in the history of film and visual media at Birkbeck. Her research focused on teen girl fandom and Hollywood cinema, so she will watch Titanic with you any time. She was born in the UK to an American mother and Spanish father and splits her time between London and Barcelona.

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