What a fun book! As it's an essay book, I liked some essays more than others, of course, and agreed with some more than others, but a surprisingly high number of them were strong. It was neat to see how other women have found and interact with Who fandom. It still doesn't make me want to go to ChicagoTardis, or any Who panels at MWC, because I still don't trust fandom outside my circle, but I see from these that I'm not really alone in that. ;) Also, she who admits she is in fandom purely for th...

It's a lovely collection of 27 essays by fans of Doctor Who, ranging from the gleeful to the mildly profound (as far as one can be in less than ten pages), ranging over various aspects of the fannish experience - watching the show, watching the show with your family (including one on what it feel like if your brother grows up to be Captain Jack Harkness, and two which caught at my heartstrings in which Who fans find themselves parenting children with special needs), conventions, fanzines, costum...

My husband brought this home from a science fiction convention, ostensibly for me, though I noticed as I read that a number of the contributors had signed it specifically to him. *cough* Overall, it's a pleasant enough read, mostly personal reminiscences of fandom or the pleasure of the visual text. Particularly outstanding, however, are a couple of essays focusing on specific female characters: Lloyd Rose's essay on why Rose Tyler works so much better with the Ninth Doctor than with the Tenth (...

This was an amazing book! On some level I identified with nearly every essay. Many had me laughing aloud and punching my fist in the air. Quite a few had me drawing x's over passages and exclaiming 'what? Absolutely not!' So amazing the various views that can be reached about essentially the same thing. This book is an absolute treasure for Doctor Who fans.

Some of the essays in this book include really interesting analysis of Doctor Who from the perspective of women, and there were also some great personal reflections about the series. True, the meatiest of the content was more about the new series, but the older Doctors and companions were still well represented in the more personal essays.Unfortunately, half this book is about the fandom, and those parts will largely be of interest to those that participate heavily in it. I was hoping that a hig...

Thoroughly enjoyable, though it made me want more and more analytical articles. Nice to see such a positive take on female fandom.

It's safe to say that I am a big fan of the new Doctor Who, and I have been ever since it arrived in 2005, back when I was sixteen. I wasn't a big fan from the first episode. As a science-fiction fan in general, I had heard of Doctor Who but was not quite sure what it was all about. So I tuned into the CBC and watched "Rose" with interest. Gradually, I came to appreciate Doctor Who for what it is: one of the best TV shows ever.Normally I don't like to jump on the "we have it so good these days"

I loved this book. Now going in I was pretty sure I was going to love this book. I bought it at a Dr. Who convention, so the subject matter was right up my alley, it was a collection of essays -- one of my favorite genres to read, and it was to explore the experience of being female -- another favorite topic. In someways I was at a disadvantage going into the essays. At the launch panel they joked about many essays starting with the person discovering a strange man in a scarf on PBS. I came to t...

This was fine. One of the essays Two Steps Forward really bothered me because it lauded Donna's figure while insulting that of other companions. Body shaming works both ways. It was the only essay I didn't finish.

A must read for Who fans. Especially any female "Who" fan who has ever been in an argument with a male Who fan over shippers, emotion in Who, the Doctor's sexuality, or why River Song rocks so much more than Rose ever did. Actually, if this book had been published a year later, I'd expect more on River..and Amy. Let's hope for a second volume, eh?

I almost feel bad rating this book as poorly as I have as much of my disappointment is the result, I suspect, of my own incorrect assumptions about the content. I picked it up expecting a light or pseudo-academic take on Doctor Who. While there are one or two articles that attempt a theory-less critical theory approach (e.g. the Magnet & Smith or Kang essays, each of which the authors should consider expanding and republishing as academic articles) most of the volume is given over to fandom disc...

Doctor Who fans, particularly those interested in gender and fandom, should really enjoy this. I'm a new fan, having only seen the rebooted series (and the terrible mid-1990s TV movie) and so some of the references are lost on me, but there are some fascinating examinations of gender and race in the series, considerations of the fandom itself, interviews with people who have been involved with the series, and some very lovely reflections on what Doctor Who offers. The essays that open and close

A series of essays by women about the BBC television series, Doctor Who, describing what the good Doctor has meant to them.Book Review: Chicks Dig Time Lords is the light, pop-culture book one might grab at the library as reading material for down-time during a Doctor Who holiday binge. It's also the kind of book to convince me that I'm not a real fan as I have zip interest in attending conventions, cosplay, creating fan fiction, fretting about the fan base, or even leaving the house much. This

This book was fun and interesting. I didn't love all of the essays - some were a bit too nostalgic for the old series, which I've never seen - but they were all insightful and interesting.

This is a fun look at fandom from a female persepctive. Like several of the essayists in this collection, I was a late convert to the bliss that is Doctor Who. (MANY thanks to my friend Kim who INSISTED that I watch it and then Torchwood) My two favorite essays are by Elizabeth Bear and Carole Barrowman. (big sister of John Barrowman- aka- Captain Jack Yumminess, er, Harkness)The various aspects of fandom (watching, writing, costuming, etc) are well represented in this slim volume and I would re...

3.5 starsI wanted to LOVE this book but I didn't.I wanted this to be fun and lighthearted but some of the essays were way too scientific and/or sociopolitical. (Hey, I'm all for women kicking ass but the feministic slant on some of these essays were a little too much for me.) But, because I love The Doctor and his companions, I enjoyed this.It even got me interested in seeing some of the classic Who stuff, so I guess that's good.

I've become somewhat a fan of these essay books on geek pop culture, and this was a particularly good one, focusing on the women's viewpoint on a particularly cool bit of SF fandom. Dr. Who is far cooler than it's closest cultural equivalent, Star Trek, for at least two reasons: 1) bow ties, 2) its ability to appeal to a large, active, passionate, and devoted female viewership.Topics range from analyses of gender, sexual, and racial stereotypes (and the occasional breaking thereof) in the progra...

I really love this collection of essays. It's a diverse and often moving examination of women in Doctor Who fandom. Some of the essays are stronger than others. The memoir-style ones, where people just talk about how they got into the show, are less interesting. The best essays are the ones that take that first-person fandom experience and analyze it, break it down, critique the culture, and place it in a greater context. Kate Orman's contribution, for example. What this collection really needed...

I got sick, realised that I had this to read thanks to the Hugo voters' pack, and read it in a day. Well, there were a couple of entries that I skipped over a bit because they weren't that engaging for me and my experiences, but I swear I read almost all of it.I love Doctor Who, but I do not LOVE it. I am a fan, but I am not a FAN. I don't think I ever realised the difference between the two before meeting people like Tansy and other serious, mad FANS (in much the same way that I didn't really k...

As a chick who digs Time Lords, I adore this collection of essays about being a female Doctor Who fan. Reading it was like the delightful feeling of sitting down with a bunch of clever friends and having a really great discussion of a shared interest. Some of the essays deal specifically with issues of being a woman in fandom, but the book will definitely also be of interest to male Doctor Who fans, since the shared experience of loving a quirky British show about time travel in a blue box trans...