(1980)
Women, Sex and Pornography
London:
Melbourne House
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
(1982)
Mills & Boon: guilt without sex
Red Letters
14:5-13
(1982)
Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women
Hamden, Connecticut:
Archon
(1983)
Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures
New York:
Facts on File
(1983)
Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination
New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons
(1984)
Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story
Toronto:
The Women's Educational Press
(1984)
Who'll Take Romance?
The Women's Review of Books
1.5:12-13
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(1986)
A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is
Canadian Literature
108:5-12
(1987)
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press
(1988)
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
(1989)
Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction
The Journal of Asian Studies
48.1:50-70
DOI: 10.2307/2057664
(1991)
Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition
Québec:
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(1992)
Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
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(1992)
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Philadelphia:
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Topic
(1994)
'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?')
Caribbean Studies
27.3/4:346–366
(1994)
The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
27.2:140-160
DOI: 10.2307/1345818
(1995)
Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture
PhD,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1995)
Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance
Australian Feminist Law Journal
5:15-26
DOI: 10.1080/13200968.1995.11077171
(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
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women
Discourse and Society
7.1:77-106
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Topic
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances
Theatre Topics
6.1:51-69
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(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women
Discourse and Society
7.1:77-106
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(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
(1996)
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women
Discourse and Society
7.1:77-106
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(1997)
Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:94-106
(1997)
My Life as a Romance Reader
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:15-28
(1999)
Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction
Studies in the Education of Adults
31.2:109-123
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(2001)
From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000
PhD,
University of Melbourne
(2001)
Family Myths in Romantic Fiction
Psychological Reports
88.1:29-41
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(2001)
Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy
Psycoloquy
12.24:
(2001)
Family Myths in Romantic Fiction
Psychological Reports
88.1:29-41
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(2001)
Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy
Psycoloquy
12.24:
(2002)
Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice
Affilia
17.4:429–447
DOI: 10.1177/088610902237360
(2003)
Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush
Hecate
29.1:115-131
(2003)
A Natural History of the Romance Novel
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
(2004)
From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels
Fremantle:
Curtin University Books
Topic
(2004)
The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization
Feminist Theory
5.3:243–256
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(2005)
Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction
Sydney:
The Federation Press
(2005)
Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance
Australian Feminist Studies
20.46:31-42
DOI: 10.1080/0816464042000334519
(2006)
Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader
The Journal of Popular Culture
39.6:928-953
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(2008)
"Suzanne Brockmann"
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-19
(2008)
Rosemary Rogers
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-8
(2008)
LaVyrle Spencer
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-17
(2008)
Nora Roberts
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-35
(2009)
"Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
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(2010)
Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances
Poetics Today
31.1:81-106
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(2010)
Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances
Poetics Today
31.1:81-106
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(2010)
Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction
Tirril, Penrith:
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Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2011)
Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn
Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy
52.2:204-226
DOI: 10.3828/extr.2011.52.2.5
(2012)
Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels
Master of Arts,
Morehead State University
(2012)
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press
(2012)
A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
(2013)
From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel
Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter
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(2014)
Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege
The Journal of Popular Culture
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(2014)
Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction
Journal of Popular Culture
47.5:923-936
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(2014)
Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology
New York:
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Topic
(2014)
Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga
Feminist Media Studies
14.3:388-402
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(2014)
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2015)
Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche
,
National Taiwan University
(2015)
Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance
Women: A Cultural Review
26.1-2:75-95
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(2015)
Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century
PhD,
Bowling Green State University
(2015)
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
New York:
New York University Press
(2015)
Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction
Literature and Medicine
33.1:70-90
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(2015)
An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.1:
(2016)
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2016)
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press
(2016)
"The Romance Novel
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(2016)
Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster
Journal of Popular Culture
49.3:604-26
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(2016)
“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
5.2:
(2018)
“And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik
Honors thesis,
University of Kansas
(2018)
The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens
PhD,
Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences
(2018)
Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950)
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
19.3:339-364
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(2018)
Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction
Santa Barbara, California:
Greenwood
Topic
(2018)
Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment
Lanham, Maryland:
Lexington
(2018)
Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards
ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies
20.2:97-109
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(2019)
Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances
Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture
4.2:149-168
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(2019)
Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura
O público e o privado
34:137-161
(2019)
‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Gothic Studies
21.1:10-27
DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004
(2019)
Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura
O público e o privado
34:137-161
(2019)
Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series
Contemporary Women's Writing
13.2:203–221
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003
(2019)
Defending the Bodice Ripper
MA thesis,
Eastern Kentucky University
(2019)
Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels
European Journal of Social Sciences
2.2:92-96
(2019)
Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism
Bachelor’s thesis,
Utrecht University
(2019)
Sexual Consent
:
MIT Press
(2019)
Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura
O público e o privado
34:137-161
(2020)
A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
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(2020)
Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance
Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres
8:261-280
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297
(2020)
Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance
Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres
8:261-280
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297
(2020)
Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
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(2020)
The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
(2020)
Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction
Online:
Topic
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3
(2021)
“Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism
Honors Thesis,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
(2021)
(Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Girlhood Studies
14.1:68–84
DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2021.140107
(2021)
“Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives
Religions
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(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
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(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
25:852–870
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3
(2022)
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society
PhD in Creative Writing,
University of Canberra
Topic
(2022)
Romance and Revolution
Master of Arts,
Texas State University
(2022)
Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2022)
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih
Journal of International Women's Studies
24.5:
(2022)
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih
Journal of International Women's Studies
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(2023)
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires
Journal of Popular Television
11.1:7-25
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(2023)
“Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
12:
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(2023)
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone
MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme,
University of Oslo
(2023)
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires
Journal of Popular Television
11.1:7-25
DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1
(2023)
Librarian as Creator
Caribbean Library Journal
7:1-16
(2023)
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction
Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge
(2024)
Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019)
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
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(2024)
Rape Beyond Fantasy: Exploring the Influence of BookTok's Erotica and Dark Romance Literature on Young Adult Perceptions of Consent and Boundaries
Master’s thesis,
University of Northern Colorado
(2024)
The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence
PhD,
University of Michigan
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
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Baraka
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(2024)
Came for the Smut, Stayed by Consent: Desire and Consent in Sarah J. Maas’s Fictional Worlds
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
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