Mori Naoko, "A Media Studies perspective on yaoi"
Mori focuses particularly on yaoi fanfiction/doujinshi based on shounen series; this is not really my corner of fandom, so I don't have any particularly strong opinions on this, except that it's sort of interesting how the idea of women creating their own corner of very male-centered fandoms, not by reworking the canon but by reinterpreting it, echoes some of what I've read about slash.
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Mori focuses particularly on yaoi fanfiction/doujinshi based on shounen series; this is not really my corner of fandom, so I don't have any particularly strong opinions on this, except that it's sort of interesting how the idea of women creating their own corner of very male-centered fandoms, not by reworking the canon but by reinterpreting it, echoes some of what I've read about slash.
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