Compared to the better-known genre of “boys’ love” manga, the Japanese tradition of yuri romance manga has received limited scholarly attention in the West. Also…
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What is an orgasm? This is a question researchers have tried to identify and understand for the last seventy or so years. It has been…
Comments closedJayashree Kamblé’s monograph not only adds significant dimensions to the intersecting fields of popular romance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies by exploring the question…
Comments closedIntroduction A one-night stand followed by an unplanned pregnancy is a plot opening that offers portrayals of female sexuality, complications, and a forced relationship that…
Comments closedWhile working late at night on my laptop in early December 2023 with my television set kept on—on mute—I caught a glimpse of the opening…
Comments closedAt the ripe old age of nineteen, I found myself falling for romance novels long after my friends had already journeyed from the whimsical lands…
Comments closedIntroduction During RomBkPod’s July 2020 interview of Beverly Jenkins, podcaster cohost Danielle Amos got emotional when it was her turn to speak: “This isn’t my…
Comments closedFor almost ten years (2013–2022), I have been teaching a segment on popular romance as part of a course in feminist cultural studies on the…
Comments closedLike so many readers of romance and chick lit, we—Maria Butler, a PhD student at University College Cork, and Rosalind Haslett, a Senior Lecturer in…
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