Jayashree Kamble approaches romance novels from the perspective of how they may help Indian women to break through gender stereotypes and cultural constraints. In Chapter Ten (“Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective”), Kamble uses results from a survey she conducted of romance readers in India, as well as textual analysis and her own experience as an Indian woman, to show how romance reading may indeed open a broader world of individual choice.
From the Introduction (page 8):