Kitchen, Veronica (2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Topic war/armed forces gender disability
Gillis, Bryan Simpson, Joanna (2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance sex/sexuality
Crane, Ralph Fletcher, Lisa (2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650 Topic islands settings rural romance
Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491 Topic disability race/ethnicity sex/sexuality African American romance Gwynne Forster gender war/armed forces N. K. Jemisin paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
McAlister, Jodi (2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64 Topic history sex/sexuality virginity