Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises

Publication year
1985
Journal
Feminist Studies
Volume
11.1
Pages
39-60
Comment

Rabine is critical of Harlequin as an organisation but concedes that

The genius of the Harlequin Romances is to combine the struggle for the recognition of feminine selfhood and the struggle to make the work world a home for that self. (52)

This was also reprinted in:

1985. Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture, ed. Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt (New York and London: Methuen), pp. 249-267.

This article closely resembles the chapter on Harlequins in Rabine's Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology (1985).