Scholarship on feminized popular culture in this century must evolve with shifting definitions of the term “woman” as well as the influence of post-feminism, which…
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That popular romance has a racism problem will not be news to anyone who’s been paying attention. Big publishers fail hard at inclusion. The Romance…
Comments closedLike a cruise liner, Crane and Fletcher’s Island Genres, Genre Islands takes its readers on a journey around various genre islands, making brief stops at…
Comments closedCarol Dyhouse opens Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire with the canonical Freudian question: “What did women want?” (1) The question itself is recorded…
Comments closedWilliam A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger’s collection Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? came out of a 2009 conference…
Comments closedThere has been a considerable volume of work produced on the sheikh romance in recent years, including two other book-length studies (both of which have…
Comments closedToday we are seeing a growing interest in erotic literature for women. I am thinking about, for example, Catherine M. Roach’s Happily Ever After: The…
Comments closedNotes from an Ongoing Man Last was not, to be fair, a great year for Laura Kipnis – or, from another perspective, it was an…
Comments closedCriticism and analysis within the field of popular romance studies have frequently been performed from a feminist or sociological point of view, primarily focusing on…
Comments closedAustralian universities and popular romance fiction may be moving towards their own Happily Ever After. Growing scholarly interest in romance fiction here includes presentations on…
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