Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels

The article is in Spanish (with the title "Prácticas de lectura y politización de género. Cómo las mujeres jóvenes de Argentina leen novelas de amor"). Here's the English version of the abstract:

How is love narrated and read in the context of the politicization and youthization of the feminist movement? How do young women appropriate the cultural matrices of love and sexual affectivity? This article will analyze the links between the experiences of gender activism among young Argentinian women and how they read young adult novels with love themes. It also examines the continuities and ruptures in the narrative of romantic love in young American adult literature, how these novels are incorporated into Argentina’s publishing market and the multiple appropriations made by a group of readers living in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. It is a qualitative and descriptive investigation based on observations in literary events, a survey of editorial catalogues, analyses of novels, and interviews with young women. Finally, this paper is a contribution to the fields of cultural sociology, book and publishing studies, and gender studies.

Since not many specific titles are given in relation to the comments made by readers, it's hard to know how many of them read "romances". It also seems that quite a few of these readers were in their early/mid-twenties when interviewed and were recalling novels they liked when they were younger but which they now find more problematic. At least one reader rejects HEA endings with conventional epilogues, but the problem here seems to be the epilogue, not the HEA itself:

Yo, que amo el romance, odio esos epílogos que dicen “dos meses después, tuvieron veinticinco hijos y la casa de cinco pisos; él sigue siendo millonario y ella sigue estando divina”. No es necesario. Generalmente, a los epílogos los paso por arriba porque son básicamente todos los mismos. A nadie se le cayó una idea diferente, nadie se fue de viaje y se compró dos perros; se compraron la mansión y tuvieron cinco hijos divinos, todos adorables, porque obviamente salieron adorables como él y ella. (16)

Also, it is noted that some of the readers imagined HEAs for novels which did not have them, and others were more accepting of romantic elements in LGBTQ+ novels than in ones about heterosexual protagonists:

Conversando con ellas en torno a las novelas que no tenían un típico final feliz, muchas imaginaron la posibilidad de que los personajes pudieran reencontrarse o volver a enamorarse. También, algunos elementos que les parecían, según sus palabras, “melosos” y “cursis” en la narración de romances heterosexuales, como la demostración de cariño a través de besos, abrazos y declaraciones de amor, no eran interpretados del mismo modo cuando se trataba de romances homosexuales. (18)