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Through an ethnographic investigation of adult female fans of '80s heart throbs Duran Duran, this article will explore the motivations and complications inherent in women's lifelong participation in pop music fandom. Finding that adult female pop fans experience a euphoric empowerment from performing the same fannish activities they did as teens, this article will consider how continued involvement in a fandom discovered in one's teenhood may be appealing because it approximates a 'reclaimed youth' for adults who are approaching midlife. However, dominant cultural politics characterise such female fan behaviour in adulthood as pathological. This article will scrutinise the bases and consequences of such prejudice, including fan reaction in the form of shame and 'closet' fandom.
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