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Abrahamsson, Elin
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Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
MA thesis,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Adams, Kathleen Barzun
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Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance
MA thesis,
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Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Ali, Kecia
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Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels
Waco, Texas:
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Ali, Kecia
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Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far
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6:
Ali, Kecia
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Romance Fiction in the Archives
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Allan, Jonathan A.
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Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels
The Journal of Men's Studies
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Allan, Jonathan A.
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Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance
Abingdon, Oxon:
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Allan, Jonathan A.
(2020)
Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation
The Journal of Popular Culture
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Allan, Jonathan A.
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“And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Allan, Jonathan A.
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Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities
Abingdon, Oxon:
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Allan, Jonathan A.
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‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster
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Allen, Amanda K.
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Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Allen, Amanda K.
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“Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer
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Alonso Valero, Encarna
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Amaya García, Marcela
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Tensões Mundias
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Arnold-Forster, Agnes
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The BMJ Opinion
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Arvanitaki, Eirini
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Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel
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Arvanitaki, Eirini
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Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance
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Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando
Cincinnati Romance Review
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Balducci, Federica
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Rethinking Romanzo Rosa: The first person narrator and changing gender roles in Brunella Gasperini’s Rosso di sera
Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe
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Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Bettinotti, Julia
Provost, Christiane
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Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre
Etudes Littéraires
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Bettinotti, Julia
Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène
Gagnon, Jocelyn
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La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
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Beers, Laura
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A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years
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European Journal of English Studies
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Benito del Valle Eskauriaza, Amelia
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La reproducción ideológica de la información y el rol social femenino en la novela rosa
PhD,
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Bennett, Tony
Emmison, Michael
Frow, John
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Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Cambridge:
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Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène
Bettinotti, Julia
Provost, Christiane
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Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre
Etudes Littéraires
16.3:399-427
Bettinotti, Julia
Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène
Gagnon, Jocelyn
Noizet, Pascale
Provost, Christiane
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
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Bettinotti, Julia
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Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Stern, Stephanie C.
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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Le roman historique sentimental: le cas des « J'ai lu »
Maîtrise en études littéraires,
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Booth, Sandra
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Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Borgia, Danielle N.
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Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege
The Journal of Popular Culture
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Breeden, Amanda L.
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Neo romance: gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels
MA thesis,
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'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?')
Caribbean Studies
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Burge, Amy
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‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction
Journal of European Popular Culture
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Burge, Amy
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Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
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Burge, Amy
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A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance
PhD,
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Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance
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The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation
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What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
Master of Science,
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Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance
Studies in American Fiction
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The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance
Lanham, Maryland:
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Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon
The IUP Journal of English Studies
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Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia
Southeast Asian Studies
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Chaplin, Sue
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‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Gothic Studies
21.1:10-27
Chelton, Mary K.
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Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter?
Reference & User Services Quarterly
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Chivers, Marian
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The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction
Masters,
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Chivers, Marian
Speed, Lesley
Tasker, Meg
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The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
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Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity
PhD,
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Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text
Curriculum Inquiry
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Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles
Sociology of Religion
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Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve
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Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women
Discourse and Society
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Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian
Sociological Perspectives
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Coddington, Lynn
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Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women
Durham and London:
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Colmenero, Laura E.
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The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997
PhD,
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C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais
Le discours et la langue
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Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
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Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?
Women's Studies
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Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Rethinking the Romance: Teaching the Content and Function of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychology of Women Course
Teaching of Psychology
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The English Journal
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Questions de communication
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Dandridge, Rita B.
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Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
New York:
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Darbyshire, Peter
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The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
Journal of Popular Culture
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Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984
PhD,
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Women: A Cultural Review
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Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
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Deffenbacher, Kristina
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Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction
Journal of Popular Culture
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Delamoir, Jeanette
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Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush
Hecate
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Reyes, Daisy Verduzco
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White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
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Díez Borque, José María
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The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman
The New Republic
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Downey, Kristin
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Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents
PhD,
McMaster University
Doyle, Marsha Vanderford
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The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels
Southern Speech Communication Journal
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Dubino, Jeanne
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The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism
Journal of Popular Culture
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Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée
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Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires
Québec:
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Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century
Neo-Victorian Studies
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Oxford:
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MFS Modern Fiction Studies
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Cambridge:
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Erekli, Arzu
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Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak
Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi,
Bilkent University, Ankara
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Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity
Stone Mountain, GA:
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"Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
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Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Romancing the New Evangelical Woman
Master of Arts,
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Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina
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American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation
Valencia:
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
Journal of Bisexuality
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Fowler, Bridget
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"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
The British Journal of Sociology
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Fowler, Bridget
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The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
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Topic
Fox, Pamela
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The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
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Fraysse, Mélie
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Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race
Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias
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Frederick, Rhonda
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Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism
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Bennett, Tony
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Frow, John
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Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Cambridge:
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Bettinotti, Julia
Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène
Gagnon, Jocelyn
Noizet, Pascale
Provost, Christiane
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
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Ganapathy, Subha
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Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture
PhD thesis,
Mother Teresa Women’s University
Fraysse, Mélie
Garcia, Marie-Carmen
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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
Gargano, Elizabeth
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"English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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Garton, Stephen
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'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945
Gender & History
20.1:48-67
Geib, Aleta Esther
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Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983
MA thesis,
Ohio State University
Topic
Gill, Rosalind
Herdieckerhoff, Elena
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Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?
Feminist Media Studies
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Gillespie, Diane F.
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Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck
Woolf Studies Annual
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Gillis, Stacy
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The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades
Women: A Cultural Review
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Golubov, Nattie
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El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea
Ciudad de México:
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Gómez Calderón, María José
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Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative
Boletín Millares Carlo
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González de la Rosa, María del Pilar
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Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances
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Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries
297-312
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar
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"
Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon
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Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries
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González-Allende, Iker
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La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española
Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos
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Goodwin, Sarah Webster
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Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Green, Marie
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Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance
Master of Arts,
University of Saskatchewan
Lois, Jennifer
Gregson, Joanna
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Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma
Gender & Society
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Gymnich, Marion
Siepmann, Dirk
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Güvendi Yalçın, Elif
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The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens
PhD,
Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences
Grossmann, Francis
Gymnich, Marion
Siepmann, Dirk
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"
Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis
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Haefner, Margaret J.
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Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels
Journal of Media Sociology
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Hall, Glinda F.
(2009)
The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own
Lewiston:
Edwin Mellen Press
Hall, Glinda Fountain
(2008)
A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction
PhD,
Arkansas State University
Topic
Hall, Glinda Fountain
(2008)
Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths
Journal of Popular Culture
41.1:37-55
Hallam, Julia
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London and New York:
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Hashim, Ruzy Suliza
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Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction
Kunapipi
32.1:67-79
Hamilton, Cristen
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Vindicating the Historical Romance
Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature
3.2:140-156
Hanson, Donna Maree
(2022)
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society
PhD in Creative Writing,
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Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina
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El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa
Cádiz, Spain:
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Columbus:
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Savinainen, Raija
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Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland
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Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives
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Seifrit, Rachel Joy
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction
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Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.
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Grossmann, Francis
Gymnich, Marion
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A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó”
Tensões Mundias
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Chakrabarti, Reema
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Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon
The IUP Journal of English Studies
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European Journal of Science and Theology
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Trower, Shelley
Tooth Murphy, Amy
Smith, Graham
(2019)
‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’
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Snitow, Ann Barr
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Radical History Review
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Soler Gallo, Miguel
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El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros
Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos
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Spears, Jessica D.
(2018)
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MA thesis,
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Chivers, Marian
Speed, Lesley
Tasker, Meg
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Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
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Sexuality & Culture
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Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels
PhD,
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Stieg, Margaret F.
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Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times
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From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance
Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network
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Suwanban, Pauline
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The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Talbot, Mary M.
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Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction
London and New York:
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Chivers, Marian
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The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
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German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
Columbus:
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‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels
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And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels
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Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga
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Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik
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Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community
PhD,
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Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana
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Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction
PhD,
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Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels
History of Intellectual Culture
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Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film
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Teo, Hsu-Ming
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Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
Austin, Texas:
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Teo, Hsu-Ming
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“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels
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Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster
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“A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif
The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW)
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Thurston, Carol
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The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
Urbana and Chicago:
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Thurston, Carol M.
(1985)
Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies
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The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition
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Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic
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Trower, Shelley
Tooth Murphy, Amy
Smith, Graham
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‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’
Participations
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Trachsel, Mary
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Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity?
Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy
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Trevenen, Claire
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Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.1:
Trower, Shelley
Tooth Murphy, Amy
Smith, Graham
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‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’
Participations
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Turner, Ellen
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E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik
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Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel
Ed.D.,
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Valverde, Mariana
(1985)
Sex, Power and Pleasure
Toronto:
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Koolen, Corina
van Dalen-Oskam, Karina
van Cranenburgh, Andreas
Nagelhout, Erica
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van Dalen-Oskam, Karina
van Cranenburgh, Andreas
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Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey
Poetics
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Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards
ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies
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Vivanco, Laura
Kramer, Kyra
(2010)
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Vivanco, Laura
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Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction
Tirril, Penrith:
Humanities-Ebooks
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Vivanco, Laura
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Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Priyatna, Aquarini
Wardiani, Sri Rijati
(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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Wardrop, Stephanie
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The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance
Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism
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Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
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Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero
Master of Arts,
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Weaver-Zercher, Valerie
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Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
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Weisser, Susan Ostrov
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The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories
New Brunswick, New Jersey:
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Ruggiero, Josephine A.
Weston, Louise C.
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Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"
The Pacific Sociological Review
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Weston, Louise C.
Ruggiero, Josephine A.
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Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels
Sex Roles
4.5:647-655
Ruggiero, Josephine A.
Weston, Louise C.
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Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels
International Journal of Women's Studies
6.1:18-25
Whalen, Kacey
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A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership
MA thesis,
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Whissell, Cynthia
(1996)
Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction
Human Nature
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White, Bonnie
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Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck
Women's History Review
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Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck
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Whitsitt, Novian
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Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu
Research in African Literatures
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Whitsitt, Novian
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Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
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Whitsitt, Novian
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Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
African Studies Review
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“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne
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Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s
MA thesis,
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Topic
Wilt, Judith
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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
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Wintle, Sarah
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The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream
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Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965
Journal of Lesbian Studies
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Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students
Journal of International Women’s Studies
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Wu, Huei-Hsia
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Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students
The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
6.6:31-38
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve
Clare, Lindsay
Youmans, Madeleine
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Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women
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Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances”
The Journal of American Culture
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Young, Erin S.
(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
Young, Whitney A.
(2013)
Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances
MA thesis,
Georgia State University
Zakreski, Patricia
(2012)
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
Zibrak, Arielle
(2021)
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
New York:
New York University Press
[Sigroha], Suman
(2018)
Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora
Millennial Asia
9.1:93-108
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Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη
(2019)
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν
Masters,
Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου