Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 Topic Spain national identity UK race/ethnicity islands Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 Topic Spain gender national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon UK
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24 Topic national identity race/ethnicity UK history Violet Winspear Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway Kay Thorpe Greece Spain Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie gender feminism