Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context

Publication year
1983
Journal
Feminist Studies
Volume
9.1
Pages
53-78
Comment

Radway discusses Dorothy Evans and the other romance readers who would be the focus of her Reading the Romance, their preferences regarding plots and characterisation, and the work of Nancy Chodorow (which she also draws on in Reading the Romance).

Reprinted in:

1995. Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, ed. Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage), pp. 202-214. [Although I don't think this is exactly as it is in the original. For one thing, it cites Radway's book on romance, published in 1984, which is the year after this article was originally published.]

2001. Romance: A Reader, ed. Susan Ostrov Weisser (New York: New York University Press, 2001), pp. 323-341.