feminism

disability

libraries/librarians

(1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313

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

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Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth

Lolah Burford

Coward, Rosalind

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

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

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

Topic

Mussell, Kay

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

Radway, Janice A.

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

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(1984) Who'll Take Romance? The Women's Review of Books 1.5:12-13 DOI: 10.2307/4019377

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Emily Toth

Worpole, Ken

(1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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fashion/clothing

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

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

Topic

Paizis, George

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

socialism and/or communism

Ellis, Kate

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

Topic

virginity

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

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Australia

Margaret Way

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

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

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

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Frenier, Mariam Darce

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

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(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

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

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Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Assiter, Alison

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

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Cantor, Muriel G.

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

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(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

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(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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Christian-Smith, Linda K.

(1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

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YA/teenage romance

Cranny-Francis, Anne

(1990) Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction Cambridge: Polity

Topic

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

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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

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

Ganguly, Keya

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

Topic

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

Topic

Stern, Barbara B.

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

Topic

(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

(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

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

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

Topic

socialism and/or communism

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

Topic

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

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Oceania

Toth, Emily

(1993) Labors of Love The Women's Review of Books 10.4:10–11 DOI: 10.2307/4021428

Topic

Emily Toth

Uszkurat, Carol Ann

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

Topic

lesbian romance

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

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth

Crane, Lynda L.

(1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1994.9979026

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

(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

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

(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

Topic

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

Topic

Jackson, Stevi

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

Topic

(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

(1995) "The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

Topic

Radner, Hilary

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

Topic

(1995) "The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

Topic

Talbot, Mary M.

(1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

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

Topic

Ang, Ien

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

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542

Topic

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

Topic

contemporary romance

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

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

Laframboise, Donna

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

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

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

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

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

(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

YA/teenage romance

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

(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

Topic

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

Topic

(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

(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

Topic

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

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Owen, Mairead

(1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546 DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00042-3

Topic

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

Topic

(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

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

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

McAlpine, Rachel

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

Topic

(1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

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

Topic

BDSM

Jennifer Crusie

Linda Howard

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

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

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

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

Topic

Dixon, jay

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

Topic

Heinecken, Dawn

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

Topic

(1999) 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

Topic

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

(1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

(1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580

Topic

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

Topic

(1999) 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality Sexualities 2.2:167-187 DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200202

Topic

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

Topic

(2000) "Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

Topic

(2000) "Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

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

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

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

family

Spain

wealth/prosperity

Sonnet, Esther

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

Topic

Maher, Jennifer

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

Topic

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

family

Darbyshire, Peter

(2002) 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

Topic

Christian romance

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

Ganapathy, Subha

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

Topic

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

Topic

Whitsitt, Novian

(2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136

Topic

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

(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

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

Whitsitt, Novian

(2003) Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa African Studies Review 46.1:137-153 DOI: 10.2307/1514984

Topic

Nigeria

Africa

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

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

Topic

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

Topic

Christian romance

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

Topic

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

Topic

Christian romance

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

Topic

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

Topic

(2005) 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:

Topic

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

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

Topic

Jasmine Cresswell

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77 DOI: 10.1002/ace.209

Topic

Ross, Catherine Bourland

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

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

Smith, Lindsay Lea

(2006) Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels? MA thesis, University of Oklahoma

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

(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

(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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

national identity

chick lit

Marion Lennox

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

(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

Hurst, Rochelle

(2009) The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate Australian Feminist Studies 24.62:453-468 DOI: 10.1080/08164640903291878

Topic

chick lit

Helen Fielding

McKay, Jade

Parsons, Elizabeth

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

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

Topic

linguistics

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 DOI: 10.1086/651044

Topic

sheikh romance

(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

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

Topic

linguistics

Saint-Jacques, Denis

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

(2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar

Topic

Delly

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

(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:

Topic

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

(2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar

Topic

Delly

Schell, Heather

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

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin

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

Topic

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

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

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

Topic

(2012) 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

Topic

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

Topic

(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

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00973.x

Topic

Wendell, Sarah

(2012) ""You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

Topic

(2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(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

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

Topic

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

(2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Topic

Zeiger, Melissa F.

(2013) "Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 32.2/33.1:107-128

Topic

health/medical

Chivers, Marian

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

Topic

war/armed forces

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

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

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 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07

Topic

(2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.285_1

Topic

(2014) 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

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 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049

Topic

Khuankaew, Sasinee

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

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren Kate

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

Topic

(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

Topic

Fifty Shades

Turner, Natasha

(2015) Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay? BA (Hons), University of Birmingham

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

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Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

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Edwin, Shirin

(2016) Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press

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Frantz Lyons, Sarah

(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

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Gates, Sarah

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

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(2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education :

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Matthews, Amy T.

(2016) The hopeful romantic Kill Your Darlings 27:44-56

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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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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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(2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12423

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BDSM

Wilkins, Kim

(2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2017) Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel Journal of Gender Studies 28.1:18-28 DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1368370

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English, Jessica

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

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Golubov, Nattie

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

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(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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(2018) Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren PhD, Stockholm University

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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

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Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor

fairytales/folktales

(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 :

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Newns, Lucinda

(2018) Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53.2:284-300 DOI: 10.1177/0021989416686156

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chick lit

Islam

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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(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

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

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BDSM

Alexis Hall

Simon, Jenni M.

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

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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

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

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

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family

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 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

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Gardner, Dora Abigail

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

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Jones, Amanda

(2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

Nikbakht, H.

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

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Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

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

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

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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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(2019) Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν Masters, Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου

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(2020) The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation Publishing Research Quarterly 36:1–16 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-019-09703-2

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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 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297

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Australia

García Fernández, Aurora

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

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Australia

Intan, Tania

(2020) Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis Alayasastra 16.2:301-316 DOI: 10.36567/aly.v16i2.634

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Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) 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

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Africa

(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

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Maya Rodale

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey

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

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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

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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 DOI: 10.1177/1367549420957334

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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 DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66

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(2021) Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/XOQE8663

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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

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(2021) “Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

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 DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004

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(2021) "Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil " Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 59-79 DOI:10.5325/jj.5233138.9

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

(2021) 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

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

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(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

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(2021) 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

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sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta

(2021) How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance New Horizons in English Studies 6:146-159 DOI: 10.17951/nh.2021.6.146-159

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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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(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

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

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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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Whitsitt, Novian

(2021) "Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa " Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader 184-205

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

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

Nigeria

Zibrak, Arielle

(2021) Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures New York: New York University Press

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Susan Warner

E. D. E. N. Southworth

(2022) "Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance " Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 185-230

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(2022) "Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 17-30

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

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Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

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

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

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(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

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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

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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

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Grinnell, Natalie

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

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Patricia Briggs

Carrie Vaughn

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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

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Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

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

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Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088

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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: DOI: 10.70138/YQAY5668

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Rebekah Weatherspoon

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(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

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

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Watson, Courtney

(2022) "I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75

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Giovanni, Chiara

(2023) Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming Post45 :

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Jasmine Guillory

Alisha Rai

Golubov, Nattie

(2023) 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

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(2023) From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme, University of Oslo

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myth

(2023) The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/PVPQ4885

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