feminism

Ang, Ien (1996) Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World London and New York: Routledge

Topic

emotions

Aravind, G. S. Dwivedi, Laxmi Dhar (2021) The Representation of Female Characters in the Romances of Hawthorne: A Comparison with the Popular Romance Fiction of America in the Twentieth Century International Journal of Mechanical Engineering 6.3:1703-1706

Topic

Arvanitaki, Eirini (2017) Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel Journal of Gender Studies 28.1:18-28

Topic

Arvanitaki, Eirini (2019) " Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? " Re/Presenting Gender and Love 159–170 DOI:10.1163/9781848883437_016

Topic

Assiter, Alison (1988) " Romance Fiction: Porn for Women? " Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 101-109

Topic

Assiter, Alison (1989) Pornography, Feminism and the Individual London: Pluto Press

Topic

Bagchi, Jayeeta (2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

Topic

Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay

Balteskard, Susanna (2022) Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s Bachelor thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

Batsleer, Janet (1981) Pulp in the Pink Spare Rib 109:52-55

Topic

Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

Topic

Christian romance

Bell, Carole V. (2022) " I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

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

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia (1996) Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle The European Legacy 1.3:1146-1152

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José (2000) " Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

Topic

Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

Topic

linguistics

Booth, Sandra (1997) Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:94-106

Topic

rom-com romance

Booth, Sandra Marie (1996) Remaking the "Angel" and "Monster": ethical shifts in the contemporary popular romance MA, Laurentian University

Topic

contemporary romance

Botts, Amber (1999) " Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction " Romantic Conventions 62-74

Topic

Bouchard, Pierrette (1980) Les romans Harlequin et Cie : plus que du rêve Des luttes et des rires de femmes 4.2:41-43

Topic

Broad, Katherine R. (2013) " “The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy " Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 117–130 DOI:10.4324/9780203084939

Topic

Cameron, Lauren (2020) The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation Publishing Research Quarterly 36:1–16

Topic

Cantor, Muriel G. (1989) " Writing Fiction as Women's Work " Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection 92-105

Topic

Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

Chakrabarti, Reema Singh, Rajni (2016) Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon The IUP Journal of English Studies 11.4:43-53

Topic

Chappel, Deborah K. (1997) LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120

Topic

Chen, Eva Y. I. (2007) " Forms of Pleasure in the Reading of Popular Romance: Psychic and Cultural Dimensions " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 30-41

Topic

Chivers, Marian (2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

Topic

war/armed forces

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Choyke, Kelly L. (2019) The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics PhD, Ohio University

Topic

community

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

Topic

Coddington, Lynn (1997) Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:58-77

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Barbara McMahon

emotions

Jennifer Crusie

Constans, Ellen (2009) La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres Belphégor 8.2:

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

France

Coward, Rosalind (1984) Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today London: Paladin

Topic

Crane, Lynda L. (1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269

Topic

Cranny-Francis, Anne (1990) Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction Cambridge: Polity

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1999) " This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61

Topic

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna (2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B. (2003) " The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Daniels, Mary Heather (1998) I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management Master of Science, Oklahoma State University

Topic

Darbyshire, Peter (2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87

Topic

Christian romance

Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

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 26.1-2:75-95

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin (2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University

Topic

Derbyshire, Val (2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

settings

Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José (2000) " Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76

Topic

Delly

Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

Douglas, Ann (1980) Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman The New Republic 183.9:25-29

Topic

Dryden, Therese (2019) The Valentine Wars PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée (1986) Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires Québec: Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe, Université Laval

Topic

Janet Dailey

Dudek, Debra Reid Boyd, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Madalena Williams, Rose (2022) " Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 47-61

Topic

Dugger, Julie M. (2014) “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57

Topic

Ellis, Kate (1987) " Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

virginity

English, Jessica (2017) Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist Masters of Science in Communication, Eastern Washington University

Topic

Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

Faust, Beatrice (1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

Topic

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

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Flesch, Juliet (2009) " ”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics " Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 419-428

Topic

Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

Topic

social class

Fowler, Bridget (1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2002) " "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

Williams, Clover Freedman, Jean R. (1995) " Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

Topic

Frenier, Mariam Darce (1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

Topic

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

Topic

García Fernández, Aurora Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280

Topic

Australia

Gaines, Judith (1990) Tracing feminism through the romance novel, or, the vines (clinging) and the swines (chauvinistic), they are a-changin' M.A., Ball State University

Topic

Ganapathy, Subha (2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

Ganguly, Keya (1991) Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture Communication 12.2:129-150

Topic

Topic

Australia

Gardner, Dora Abigail (2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Gates, Sarah (2016) Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre Voiceworks 103 (Autumn):95-101

Topic

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth (1994) The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance M.A., University of Alberta

Topic

Genz, Carole (2005) Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions PhD, University of Stirling

Topic

Charlotte Brontë

Daphne du Maurier

Gill, Rosalind Herdieckerhoff, Elena (2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504

Topic

Golubov, Nattie (2017) El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea Ciudad de México: Bonilla Artigas

Topic

González de la Rosa, María del Pilar (2022) " Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 297-312

Topic

González de la Rosa, María del Pilar (2022) " Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 109-125

Topic

Goodwin, Sarah Webster (1997) Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:233-241

Topic

Green, Marie (2006) Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance Master of Arts, University of Saskatchewan

Topic

Jasmine Cresswell

Grinnell, Natalie (2022) The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Brigg's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels Femspec 22.2:40-65

Topic

Patricia Briggs

Carrie Vaughn

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Hanson, Donna Maree (2022) Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society PhD in Creative Writing, University of Canberra

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

Hazen, Helen (1983) Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Topic

Lolah Burford

Heinecken, Dawn (1999) " Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 149-172

Topic

Topic

Gill, Rosalind Herdieckerhoff, Elena (2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504

Topic

Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler (2000) Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction Bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West

Topic

Hirsbrunner, A. R. (2000) Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction PhD, The University of Wales College of Cardiff

Topic

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

Topic

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

Topic

Houel, Annik (1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

Hubbard, Rita Cooper (1981) Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 PhD, Temple University

Topic

Hurst, Rochelle (2009) The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate Australian Feminist Studies 24.62:453-468

Topic

Helen Fielding

Intan, Tania (2020) Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis Alayasastra 16.2:301-316

Topic

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, (1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

libraries/librarians

Jackson, Stevi (1995) " Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change " Romance Revisited 49-62

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017

Topic

sheikh romance

Jarvis, Christine (1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123

Topic

Jarvis, Christine (2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77

Topic

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) " Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27

Topic

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) " Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree (2007) " Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

Topic

Christian romance

Kelso, Sylvia (1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland

Topic

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kelso, Sylvia (1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179

Topic

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Khuankaew, Sasinee (2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

Kinsale, Laura (1992) " The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

Topic

Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Klarich, Morgan L. (2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April :

Topic

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

Topic

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

Topic

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:

Topic

Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Laframboise, Donna (1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin

Topic

Lam, Maylyn (1994) The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Larcombe, Wendy (2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press

Topic

Levy, Bronwen (1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

Topic

Margaret Way

Long, Eileen M. (2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University

Topic

Magenya, Sheena Gimase (2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Africa

Maher, Jennifer (2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

Topic

Mäkelä, Veera (2020) " "World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

Makinen, Merja (2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

Manzano Badía, Benjamín (2000) " Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

wealth/prosperity

social class

Margolis, Harriet (1992) " Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader " Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume 3 165-178

Topic

Margolis, Harriet (1995) The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994) :78-82

Topic

Martin, Darcy (2003) " 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

community

Martin, Michèle (1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Topic

Matthews, Amy T. (2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education :

Topic

Matthews, Amy T. (2016) The hopeful romantic Kill Your Darlings 27:44-56

Topic

Mayfield, Kerrita K. (2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70

Topic

happy ending

m/m romance

Mayhew, Lilybeth M. (1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (2022) " Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-9

Topic

McAlpine, Rachel (1998) The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press

Topic

McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) " Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

McCracken, Scott (1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210

Topic

sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Miles, Angela (1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

Miller, Kathleen (2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

disability

Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Modleski, Tania (1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

Jennifer Crusie

Linda Howard

Montague, Holly W. (1994) " From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

Heliodorus

Moody, Nickianne (1998) " Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Topic

Moss, Gemma (1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

Mukherjea, Ananya (2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Mussell, Kay (2002) " Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? " The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 40-41

Topic

Newns, Lucinda (2018) Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53.2:284-300

Topic

Islam

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey (2020) Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Topic

Nikbakht, H. (2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta (2021) How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance New Horizons in English Studies 6:146-159

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren Kate (2015) In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' PhD, Murdoch University

Topic

Australia

Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

O'Toole, Patricia (1979) Paperback Virgins Human Behavior 8.2:62-67

Topic

Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

Topic

linguistics

Owen, Mairead (1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546

Topic

Paizis, George (1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1994) " Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

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Stacey, Jackie Pearce, Lynne (1995) " The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

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Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2019) Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas PhD, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Lisa Kleypas

Rosamunde Pilcher

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2021) " Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 121-146

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Lisa Kleypas

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

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

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Spain

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Philips, Deborah (2020) In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.6:900–914

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Po-Yu, Rick Wei (2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131

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Pritchard, Jamee N. (2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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Radford, Jean (1986) " Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

socialism and/or communism

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Radford, Jean (1992) " A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19

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socialism and/or communism

Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

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Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162

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Radway, Janice (1994) " Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

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Radway, Janice A. (1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

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Ramsdell, Kristin (2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

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science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

Raymundo, Sarah Jane S. (2004) In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 1.2:91-118

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Regis, Pamela (2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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Reid Boyd, Elizabeth (2014) Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:263-272

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Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Reitemeier, Rebecca (2019) Romance Novels and Higher Education Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2:

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Topic

Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35

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Ricker-Wilson, Carol (1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64

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Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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Roach, Catherine M. (2018) " Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116

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Alexis Hall

McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) " Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

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Roces, Mina (2012) Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

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Rollins, Shannon Marie (2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh

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Ross, Catherine Bourland (2006) Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? Brown Working Papers :

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Carmen de Icaza

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76

Topic

Delly

Salmon, Catherine (2005) " Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19

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Salmon, Catherine (2012) The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance Review of General Psychology 16.2:152-160

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computer/video/digital games

Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92

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pirates and outlaws

fashion/clothing

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Samuel, Barbara (1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

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Schell, Heather (2011) " The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

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Seale, Maura (2007) " "I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

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death

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles (1992) " Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

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Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-30

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Jennifer Crusie

science/technology

Serisier, Tanya (2015) " On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132

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Fifty Shades

Simon, Jenni M. (2018) Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

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Chakrabarti, Reema Singh, Rajni (2016) Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon The IUP Journal of English Studies 11.4:43-53

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Smith, Faith (1999) " Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

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Sonnet, Esther (1999) 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality Sexualities 2.2:167-187

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Sonnet, Esther (2000) " What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women " 246-267

Topic

Stacey, Jackie Pearce, Lynne (1995) " The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

Topic

Stern, Barbara B. (1991) " Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising " NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 384-391

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Stetson, Suzanne (2022) Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 13:

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Street, Amy (2021) " Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 240-249 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.18

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Taddeo, Julie Anne (2013) " Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

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Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

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Tegan, Mary Beth (2007) " Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 231-263

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) " Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) " "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

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McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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Thierauf, Doreen (2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26

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Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

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Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

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erotic romance

Tokley, Anne-Marie (2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

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national identity

Marion Lennox

Toth, Emily (1984) Who'll Take Romance? The Women's Review of Books 1.5:12-13

Topic

Emily Toth

Toth, Emily (1993) Labors of Love The Women's Review of Books 10.4:10–11

Topic

Emily Toth

Treacher, Amal (1988) " What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Uszkurat, Carol Ann (1993) " Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

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lesbian romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 75-94

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social class

Veldman-Genz, Carole (2012) " The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120

Vivanco, Laura (2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089

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