In "Romance Fiction" (2002) Kay Mussell, writing in The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture (volume IV), states of this article by Margolis that:
Examining category romances of the mid-1980s, Harriet Margolis argues in "Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader" that emerging romances exhibited far more feminist notions than many critics assumed. She suggests that these changes were largely a product of reader preferences and that readers were developing a more self-conscious and sometimes ironic view of romance conventions that made them more perceptive critics and more selective consumers of the fiction. (Mussell, "Romance Fiction", 1576)
In "Romance Fiction" (2002) Kay Mussell, writing in The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture (volume IV), states of this article by Margolis that: