sex/sexuality
Ali, Kecia
(2018)
Romance Fiction in the Archives
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
7:
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2011)
Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.1:
Topic
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2016)
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus
Regina:
University of Regina Press
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2020)
Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance
Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2020)
“And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2022)
‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster
Critical Studies in Men's Fashion
9.2:207-222
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2023)
Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels
Porn Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Anderton, Gretchen E.
(2009)
Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives
Doctor of Education,
Widener University
Topic
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Silva, Erotilde Honório
(2010)
Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental
Comunicarte
30.41:9-25
Topic
Andreu, Alicia G.
(2011)
Corín Tellado y el discurso popular: “Peculiares confidencias”
Romance Quarterly
58.1:16-26
Anita,
Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf
Santosa, Riyadi
Wibowo, Agus Hari
(2020)
Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James
International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change
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Ardis, Ann
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E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century
Women's Writing
3.3:287-296
Bagchi, Jayeeta
(2000)
Looking for Reality in Romance
Social Scientist
28.3/4:30-39
Bailie, Helen T.
(2011)
Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance
The Journal of American Culture
34.2:141-148
Balducci, Federica
(2011)
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
24.1:103-126
Baldus, Kimberly
(2012)
Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Baldys, Emily M.
(2012)
Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
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Barrett-Fox, Rebecca
(2015)
Review: When Mercy Rains
Mennonite Life
69:
Kapell, Matthew
Becker, Suzanne
(2005)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
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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Beers, Laura
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Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction
Parliamentary Affairs
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Béja, Alice
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La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine
Revue du Crieur
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Bereska, Tami M.
(1992)
Adolescent Romance Novels: Changes Over Time
Master of Arts,
University of Alberta
Bereska, Tami M.
(1994)
Adolescent Sexuality and the Changing Romance Novel Market
The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
3.1:35-44
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
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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Betz, Phyllis M.
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Bhasin, Neeta
(2018)
Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant
Journal of Literature and Art Studies
8.10:1459-1474
Rader, Kara
Hovick, Shelly R.
Bigsby, Elisabeth
(2021)
“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels
Communication Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Olivarez, Omar
Hardie, Ryan
Blackburn, Kate G.
(2018)
The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
37.6:680-691
Topic
Brown, Eleanor M.
(2001)
Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre
Master of Arts,
West Chester University
Bryce, Jane
(1994)
'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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Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Burke, Nicola
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Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance
PhD,
Western Sydney University
Ménard, A. Dana
Cabrera, Christine
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‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels
Sexuality & Culture
15.3:240–255
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Cabrera, Christine
Ménard, Amy Dana
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'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels
Sexuality & Culture
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Capps, Stephanie Carol
(2017)
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
Master of Science,
University of Oklahoma
Topic
Carter, Ellen
(2020)
Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Cassiday, Julie A.
(2020)
A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Cella, Laurie J. C.
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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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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
Chappel, Deborah K.
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LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Cheyne, Ria
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Disability Studies Reads the Romance
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
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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
Discourse and Society
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Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
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Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Clawson, Laura
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Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian
Sociological Perspectives
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Coles, Claire D.
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Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances
Archives of Sexual Behavior
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Crane, Lynda L.
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Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?
Women's Studies
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Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice
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Les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin: quelle(s) figure(s) de l’amoureux? Quel(s) modèle(s) de relation(s) amoureuse(s)?
Questions de communication
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Dandridge, Rita B.
(2004)
Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
New York:
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Dandridge, Rita B.
(2022)
Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Darbyshire, Peter
(2002)
The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
Journal of Popular Culture
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Davis, Mary Louise
(1986)
Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984
PhD,
University of Southern California
Topic
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Hunting, Kyra
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From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires
Journal of Popular Television
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Deal, Clare H.
(2015)
Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance
Women: A Cultural Review
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Deller, Ruth A.
Smith, Clarissa
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Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades
Sexualities
16.8:932–950
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco
Speer, Annika C.
Denes, Amanda
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Dennis, Lesley Erin
(2012)
Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels
Master of Arts,
Morehead State University
Diekman, Amanda B.
McDonald, Mary
Gardner, Wendi L.
(2000)
Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior
Psychology of Women Quarterly
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(2007)
The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers
Journal of Literary Semantics
36.2:159-187
Downey, Kristin
(2005)
Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents
PhD,
McMaster University
Dyhouse, Carol
(2017)
Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire
Oxford:
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Dymock, Alex
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Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’
Sexualities
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Ebert, Teresa L.
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Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances
Indian Journal of American Studies
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Edmondson, Belinda
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The Black Romance
Women's Studies Quarterly
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Egan, Jesi
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Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
62.3:462-80
Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria
(2021)
“Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey
Master's Thesis,
University of Bergen
Fekete, Maleah
(2022)
Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina
(2018)
"
Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural
"
Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016
69-95
Flesch, Juliet
(2004)
From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels
Fremantle:
Curtin University Books
Topic
Flesch, Juliet Ella
(2001)
From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000
PhD,
University of Melbourne
Fletcher, Lisa
(2008)
Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity
Burlington:
Ashgate
Fletcher, Lisa
(2014)
Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
Fong, Katrina
Mullin, Justin B.
Mar, Raymond A.
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How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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(2006)
X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
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Foster, Guy Mark
(2015)
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
Journal of Bisexuality
15.4:509-531
Fowler, Bridget
(1991)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
Fraysse, Mélie
Garcia, Marie-Carmen
(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
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma
(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
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma
(2022)
Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Frost, Laura
(2013)
The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
New York:
Columbia University Press
Gagnon, Andrée
(1987)
Et si je t'aime, prends garde à toi : essai d'anthropologie sur la sexualité dans les romans Harlequin
Mémoire (M.A.),
l’Université Laval
Bettinotti, Julia
Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène
Gagnon, Jocelyn
Noizet, Pascale
Provost, Christiane
(1986)
La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin
Montréal:
Université du Québec à Montréal
Garber, Linda
(2021)
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
Cham, Switzerland:
Palgrave Macmillan
Fraysse, Mélie
Garcia, Marie-Carmen
(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
Gardner, Dora Abigail
(2019)
Defending the Bodice Ripper
MA thesis,
Eastern Kentucky University
Gardner, Jeanne
(2011)
'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954
Forum for World Literature Studies
3.1:118-128
Gardner, Jeanne Emerson
(2013)
She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954
The Journal of American Culture
36.1:16-24
Diekman, Amanda B.
McDonald, Mary
Gardner, Wendi L.
(2000)
Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior
Psychology of Women Quarterly
24.2:179-188
Topic
Gargano, Elizabeth
(2006)
"English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
48.2:171-186
Garton, Stephen
(2008)
'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945
Gender & History
20.1:48-67
Gates, Sarah
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Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre
Voiceworks
103 (Autumn):95-101
Geib, Aleta Esther
(1986)
Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983
MA thesis,
Ohio State University
Topic
Gill, Rosalind
Herdieckerhoff, Elena
(2006)
Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?
Feminist Media Studies
6.4:487-504
Gillis, Bryan
Simpson, Joanna
(2015)
Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets
Lanham, Maryland:
Rowman & Littlefield
Gillis, Stacy
(2015)
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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Goris, An
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Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Greer, Germaine
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The Female Eunuch
London:
MacGibbon & Kee
Lois, Jennifer
Gregson, Joanna
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Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma
Gender & Society
29.4:459-483
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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
Olivarez, Omar
Hardie, Ryan
Blackburn, Kate G.
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The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
37.6:680-691
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Hassencahl, Fran
(1980)
Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances
Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980).
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Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva
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"They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book
Canadian Journal of Communication
23.2:
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Gill, Rosalind
Herdieckerhoff, Elena
(2006)
Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?
Feminist Media Studies
6.4:487-504
Herendeen, Ann
(2012)
The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Hirdman, Anja
(2016)
Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research
32.61:42-57
Kolmes, Sara
Hoffman, Matthew A.
(2021)
Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
79.1:30–41
Holmes, Diana
(2006)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
Horgheim, Celina
(2023)
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone
MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme,
University of Oslo
Rader, Kara
Hovick, Shelly R.
Bigsby, Elisabeth
(2021)
“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels
Communication Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Davisson, Amber
Hunting, Kyra
(2023)
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires
Journal of Popular Television
11.1:7-25
Iqbal, Kundan
(2014)
The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health
Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care
40:300–302
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Jagodzinski, Mallory
(2010)
Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology
Master of Arts,
Bowling Green State University
Jarmakani, Amira
(2011)
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
American Quarterly
63.4:895-928
Jarvis, Christine
(1999)
Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction
Studies in the Education of Adults
31.2:109-123
Jarvis, Christine A.
(2003)
Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices
Adult Education Quarterly
53.4:261-276
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Jensen, Margaret Ann
(1984)
Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story
Toronto:
The Women's Educational Press
Johnson, Naomi R.
(2010)
Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels
Women's Studies in Communication
33.1:54-73
Johnson, Naomi Ruth
(2007)
Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels
PhD,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juhasz, Suzanne
(1998)
Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
17.1:65-82
Kamble, Jayashree
(2008)
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel
PhD,
University of Minnesota
Kamblé, Jayashree
(2023)
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
:
Indiana University Press
Kamblé, Jayashree
(2023)
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s
The Journal of American Culture
FORTHCOMING:FORTHCOMING
Topic
Kanerick, Caroline
(2010)
‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck
Women's History Review
19.5:685-702
Kapell, Matthew
Becker, Suzanne
(2005)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
Khuankaew, Sasinee
(2015)
Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions
PhD,
Cardiff University
Khuankaew, Sasinee
(2017)
Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions
The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings
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Topic
Kinard, Amanda Marette
(1999)
Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers
PhD,
Vanderbilt University
Klarich, Morgan L.
(2012)
Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?
MA thesis,
Dartmouth College
Kraxenberger, Maria
Knoop, Christine A.
Menninghaus, Winfried
(2021)
Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
8:
Kokkola, Lydia
(2011)
Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series
Children's Literature in Education
42.2:165-179
Kolmes, Sara
Hoffman, Matthew A.
(2021)
Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
79.1:30–41
Kramer, Daniela
Moore, Michael
(2001)
Family Myths in Romantic Fiction
Psychological Reports
88.1:29-41
Vivanco, Laura
Kramer, Kyra
(2010)
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
Kramer, Kyra
(2012)
Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.
McLuckie, Alyx
Mulberry, Benjamin J.
Mullins, Erin K.
Shuler, Autumn R.
Kratzer, Jessica M. W.
(2018)
"
Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey
"
Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon
77-96
Kraxenberger, Maria
Knoop, Christine A.
Menninghaus, Winfried
(2021)
Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
8:
Krentz, Jayne Ann
(1992)
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
Kustritz, Anne
(2003)
Slashing the Romance Narrative
The Journal of American Culture
26.3:371-384
Kutzer, M. Daphne
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"I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
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Lamy, Odile
(1997)
La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin
Cahiers de la recherche en éducation
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Lawrey, Jeffrey A.
McLuckie, Alyx
Mulberry, Benjamin J.
Mullins, Erin K.
Shuler, Autumn R.
Kratzer, Jessica M. W.
(2018)
"
Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey
"
Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon
77-96
Lee, Linda J.
(2008)
Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales
Marvels & Tales
22.1:52-66
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Wood, Andrea
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Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins
PhD,
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Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women
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Wu, Huei-Hsia
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Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation?
Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology
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Wu, Huei-Hsia
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Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students
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Wu, Huei-Hsia
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Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students
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Young, Erin S.
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Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn
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Zibrak, Arielle
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Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη
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