virginity

Ellis, Kate

(1987) "Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

feminism

gothic romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

race/ethnicity

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

race/ethnicity

(2018) "Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction " Pirates in History and Popular Culture 109–119

Topic

pirates and outlaws

sex/sexuality

historical romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Hernandez, Carmen E.

(2022) Romance and Revolution Master of Arts, Texas State University

Topic

Sylvain Reynard

Erika Wilde

Carly Phillips

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

Eliza Haywood

Jensen, Margaret Ann

(1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

(1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

(2007) "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kinard, Amanda Marette

(1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

sex/sexuality

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

feminism

Daphne Clair

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

McAleer, Joseph

(1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/1.3.264

Topic

Publishing

romances in magazines and newspapers

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph

(1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Publishing

libraries/librarians

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAlister, Jodi

(2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64

Topic

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

McAlister, Jodi Ann

(2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University

Topic

McKay, Jade

Parsons, Elizabeth

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

marriage

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2021) Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/CHKD6705

Topic

Iran

Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi

national identity

(2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

United States of America

(2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

health/medical

marriage

O'Toole, Patricia

(1979) Paperback Virgins Human Behavior 8.2:62-67

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

India

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

marriage

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Puren, Nina

(1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26 DOI: 10.1080/13200968.1995.11077171

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

race/ethnicity

Schwab, Sandra Martina

(2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

YA/teenage romance

(1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141

Topic

religion/spirituality

(1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

erotic romance

United States of America

pornography

(1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss