Francis, Conseula (2016) "Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180 Topic Zane sex/sexuality romance and, or as, activism race/ethnicity emotions marriage love
Dandridge, Rita B. (2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166 Topic Beverly Jenkins love sex/sexuality history gender race/ethnicity United States of America rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family wealth/prosperity
Peabody, Rebecca (2016) "Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 131-150 Topic historical romance race/ethnicity sex/sexuality Barbara Ferry Johnson
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127 Topic health/medical Brenda Jackson African American romance sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity United States of America history romance and, or as, activism
Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) "Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110 Topic historical romance Kathleen Woodiwiss feminism sex/sexuality Rosemary Rogers rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse United States of America
Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors fashion/clothing United States of America gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history metafiction Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith lesbian romance Valerie Taylor Ann Bannon Rita Mae Brown