Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances

Publication year
1986
Journal
Indian Journal of American Studies
Volume
16.1
Pages
71-80
Comment

Via Google Books I can see a short summary of a paper Ebert presented in 1982 to the Modern Language Association which had the same title. Admittedly there might have been significant differences between the paper as presented and as published. However, it seems worth noting here. The summary was published in Women and Language News 7.1 (1983):

Ebert studies Harlequin Romances using the ideas of Michel Foucault developed in his History of sexuality and his "analytics of power." She finds that in Harlequin Romances the power of the hero to constrain the power of the heroine--her sexuality--is not unilateral because power in their relationship is based on female sexuality itself.

The snippets of the published article I was able to see did indeed include references to Foucault's History of Sexuality.