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Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
10:
(2021)
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World
London and New York:
Routledge
(1996)
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
(2021)
Topic
Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel
Journal of Gender Studies
28.1:18-28
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1368370
(2017)
Pornography, Feminism and the Individual
London:
Pluto Press
(1989)
Topic
Looking for Reality in Romance
Social Scientist
28.3/4:30-39
(2000)
Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s
Bachelor thesis,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(2022)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
(2005)
Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle
The European Legacy
1.3:1146-1152
DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542
(1996)
Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:94-106
(1997)
Les romans Harlequin et Cie : plus que du rêve
Des luttes et des rires de femmes
4.2:41-43
(1980)
The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation
Publishing Research Quarterly
36:1–16
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-019-09703-2
(2020)
Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon
The IUP Journal of English Studies
11.4:43-53
(2016)
LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:107-120
(1997)
The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction
Masters,
Federation University Australia
(2014)
The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics
PhD,
Ohio University
(2019)
Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:58-77
(1997)
Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today
London:
Paladin
(1984)
Topic
Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?
Women's Studies
23.3:257-269
DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1994.9979026
(1994)
Topic
Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels
PhD thesis,
University of Georgia
(2022)
I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management
Master of Science,
Oklahoma State University
(1998)
The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
Journal of Popular Culture
35.4:75-87
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x
(2002)
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
DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049
(2015)
Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels
Master of Arts,
Morehead State University
(2012)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar
(2011)
Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman
The New Republic
183.9:25-29
(1980)
The Valentine Wars
PhD,
University of Newcastle, Australia
(2019)
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
(1986)
“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
(2014)
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
(2021)
Topic
Revamping The Gaze: How Twilight Hosts the Conditions for Female Spectatorship
Honors Thesis,
University of Michigan
(2024)
Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction
Evanston, Illinois:
Northwestern University Press
(2016)
Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist
Masters of Science in Communication,
Eastern Washington University
(2017)
Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific
Olive Pink Society Bulletin
5.1:34-39
(1993)
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
(2018)
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From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels
Fremantle:
Curtin University Books
(2004)
Topic
From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000
PhD,
University of Melbourne
(2001)
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
(1997)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
(1991)
Topic
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
DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003
(2019)
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
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297
(2020)
Tracing feminism through the romance novel, or, the vines (clinging) and the swines (chauvinistic), they are a-changin'
M.A.,
Ball State University
(1990)
Topic
Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture
PhD thesis,
Mother Teresa Women’s University
(2002)
Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture
Communication
12.2:129-150
(1991)
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
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297
(2020)
Defending the Bodice Ripper
MA thesis,
Eastern Kentucky University
(2019)
Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre
Voiceworks
103 (Autumn):95-101
(2016)
The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance
M.A.,
University of Alberta
(1994)
Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions
PhD,
University of Stirling
(2005)
Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?
Feminist Media Studies
6.4:487-504
DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947
(2006)
Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series
Esferas Literarias
6:21-37
DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16293
(2023)
Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:233-241
(1997)
Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance
Master of Arts,
University of Saskatchewan
(2006)
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society
PhD in Creative Writing,
University of Canberra
(2022)
Topic
Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination
New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons
(1983)
Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?
Feminist Media Studies
6.4:487-504
DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947
(2006)
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2024)
Topic
Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction
Bachelor's degree,
Arizona State University West
(2000)
Topic
Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction
PhD,
The University of Wales College of Cardiff
(2000)
Topic
Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
79.1:30–41
DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004
(2021)
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological Spectrum
17.4:437-451
DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177
(1997)
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone
MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme,
University of Oslo
(2023)
The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate
Australian Feminist Studies
24.62:453-468
DOI: 10.1080/08164640903291878
(2009)
Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis
Alayasastra
16.2:301-316
DOI: 10.36567/aly.v16i2.634
(2020)
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
(1981)
Topic
“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
35.4:993-1017
DOI: 10.1086/651044
(2010)
Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction
Studies in the Education of Adults
31.2:109-123
DOI: 10.1080/02660830.1999.11661406
(1999)
Using Fiction for Transformation
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
109:69-77
DOI: 10.1002/ace.209
(2006)
Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story
Toronto:
The Women's Educational Press
(1984)
Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt
Neo-Victorian Studies
12.1:1-27
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919
(2019)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
(2005)
Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89
PhD,
James Cook University of North Queensland
(1996)
Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:164-179
(1997)
For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance
PhD,
University of Pennsylvania
(1984)
Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism?
MA thesis,
Dartmouth College
(2012)
Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing
PhD,
University of Texas at Austin
(1994)
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
:
(2018)
Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
79.1:30–41
DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004
(2021)
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological Spectrum
17.4:437-451
DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177
(1997)
Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
(2012)
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
(1992)
Topic
The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance
PhD,
University of Melbourne
(1994)
Topic
Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction
Sydney:
The Federation Press
(2005)
Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel
Master's Thesis,
Purdue University
(2021)
Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1
Agenda
34.3:137-144
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756
(2020)
Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt
College Literature
28.1:64-83
(2001)
Feminist Popular Fiction
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave
(2001)
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
(1995)
Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition
Québec:
Presses de l'Université du Québec
(1991)
Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer
Arts and Humanities as Higher Education
:
(2016)
The hopeful romantic
Kill Your Darlings
27:44-56
(2016)
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
DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07
(2014)
The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre
Master of Arts (Hons.),
University of Wollongong
(1994)
The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine
Christchurch, New Zealand:
Hazard Press
(1998)
On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance
Journal of Femininities
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
DOI: 10.1163/29501229-bja10005
(2024)
The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
9:177–210
DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7
(2021)
Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
12. 1-2:1-37
(1988)
A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
(2010)
My Life as a Romance Reader
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:15-28
(1997)
My Life as a Romance Writer
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
4.9:134-144
(1998)
Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
(2022)
Un/Popular Fictions
London:
Virago
(1989)
My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance
Studies in Popular Culture
33.2:1-20
(2011)
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
(1984)
Topic
Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
53.2:284-300
DOI: 10.1177/0021989416686156
(2018)
Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty
Eugene, Oregon:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
(2020)
Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism
Bachelor’s thesis,
Utrecht University
(2019)
How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance
New Horizons in English Studies
6:146-159
DOI: 10.17951/nh.2021.6.146-159
(2021)
Topic
Australian rural romance as feminist romance?
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:285-298
DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.285_1
(2014)
In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit'
PhD,
Murdoch University
(2015)
Paperback Virgins
Human Behavior
8.2:62-67
(1979)
Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction
Women's Studies International Forum
20.4:537-546
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00042-3
(1997)
'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France
PhD,
University of London, Birkbeck
(1986)
Topic
The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
12:
(2023)
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
(2019)
Romance Novels and Possibilities in Life : Analyzing Ethical Aspects in Happiness and Happy Place
Masters thesis,
University of Helsinki
(2024)
In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance
European Journal of Cultural Studies
23.6:900–914
DOI: 10.1177/1367549420957334
(2020)
Topic
Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
(2022)
The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest
American Quarterly
33.2:140-162
DOI: 10.2307/2712313
(1981)
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press
(1984)
Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance
PhD,
University of Toronto
(2005)
Topic
Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction
Santa Barbara, California:
Greenwood
(2018)
Topic
In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production
Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society
1.2:91-118
(2004)
Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:263-272
DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.263_1
(2014)
Romance Novels and Higher Education
Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities
2.2:
(2019)
Nora Roberts
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-35
(2008)
Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance
The English Journal
88.3:57-64
DOI: 10.2307/821580
(1999)
Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction
,
Universitat de les Illes Balears
(2023)
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press
(2016)
Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008
Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press
(2012)
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction
Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge
(2023)
Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse?
Brown Working Papers
:
(2006)
Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"
The Pacific Sociological Review
20.2:279-300
DOI: 10.2307/1388936
(1977)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar
(2011)
The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance
Review of General Psychology
16.2:152-160
DOI: 10.1037/a0027910
(2012)
Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design
Feminist Media Histories
6.1:66-92
DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66
(2020)
The Art of Romance Novels
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:78-80
(1997)
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2024)
Topic
Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
(2012)
Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon
The IUP Journal of English Studies
11.4:43-53
(2016)
Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels?
MA thesis,
University of Oklahoma
(2006)
Topic
'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality
Sexualities
2.2:167-187
DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200202
(1999)
Topic
Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances
INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
13:
(2022)
Topic
Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster
Journal of Popular Culture
49.3:604-26
DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12423
(2016)
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological Spectrum
17.4:437-451
DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177
(1997)
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity
Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press
(1987)
Who'll Take Romance?
The Women's Review of Books
1.5:12-13
DOI: 10.2307/4019377
(1984)
Labors of Love
The Women's Review of Books
10.4:10–11
DOI: 10.2307/4021428
(1993)
Topic
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances
Journal of Popular Culture
45.5:1060–1089
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00973.x
(2012)
The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories
New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Rutgers University Press
(2013)
Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels"
The Pacific Sociological Review
20.2:279-300
DOI: 10.2307/1388936
(1977)
Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu
Research in African Literatures
33.2:119-136
(2002)
Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
African Studies Review
46.1:137-153
DOI: 10.2307/1514984
(2003)
Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature
Honors Program in English and Media Studies,
Guilford College
(2024)
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.2:
(2012)
"Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
32.2/33.1:107-128
(2013)
Topic
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν
Masters,
Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου
(2019)
ハーレクイン対フェミニズム - フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察 -
The Journal of the Chubu American Literature Society
8:
(2005)