Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature

There is a note towards the start of the book saying that "Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature" was reprinted there after first appearing in Reading-Canada-Lecture (now Reflections on Canadian Literacy) 4.1 (1986). However, I've not been able to find this so I can't give any further details.

A description of the work is given in the introduction to the volume:

the reading of current series novels represents a new set of literacy practices. John Willinsky and R. Mark Hunniford examine this 'self-directed literacy' through their Canadian study of forty-two seventh grade readers from lower middle-class neighbourhoods and focused interviews of eight young women readers. This study paralleled Janice Radway's (1984) groundbreaking analysis of adult romance fiction readers. Using Lacan's notion of mirror stage, Willinsky and Hunniford argue that just as a child's reflected image serves as the basis for the developing identity, books provide mirrors for teenagers. However, these mirrors are of differentially gendered possible worlds: careers for young men, romance for young women. As mirror and lamp, teen romance thus prepares young women for entry into heterosexuality. The interviews with young women here provide glimpses of the ways books position them within meaning and 'regimes of truth': boys shape young women's subjectivities and validate their worth. For readers, the pleasures of living the exciting life of the romance heroine and being able to safely peer into the future pale before these ponderous truths. Willinsky and Hunniford conclude that despite the rich interpretations by readers, teen romance fiction is 'troubling'. (5-6)