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Review title: Not impressed by this book
Product review: In 1992 both "Enterprising Women" and "Textual Poachers" were published. Not just one, but two important books published about media fandom? Wow. We had arrived.Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Contemporary Ethnography)Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)At that time I had been in fandom just under 20 years. Like many others in fandom, I eagerly read both books.Unfortunately, I was sadly disappointed by this book. Page after page, I shook my head in disagreement and wrinkled my brow in perplexity of the how-did-she-reach-*that*-conclusion variety. It simply did not represent my perspective of or participation in fandom, then or now.I've read the book more than once since its publication, seeking to see if my view on it has changed, and it never has.(On a related note, "Textual Poachers" has always engendered the opposite response in me.)
