virginity

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

psychology

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

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

Topic

Kinard, Amanda Marette

(1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

work

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

India

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2003) "What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 127-146

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

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2008) Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance Studies in American Fiction 36.2:197-220 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2008.0002

Topic

Kathleen Thompson Norris

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

work

(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

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2011) Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

(2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

United States of America

(2012) Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Bonelli, María Valentina

(2012) La virgen desollada: la perdida de la virginidad en las novelas de Corín Tellado durante el franquismo Gramma 1.4:

Topic

Corín Tellado

Schwab, Sandra Martina

(2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

McAlister, Jodi Ann

(2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Seifert, Christine

(2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

YA/teenage romance

(2016) The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels The Journal of Men's Studies 24.1:24-41 DOI: 10.1177/1060826515624382

Topic

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

Burge, Amy

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Burge, Amy

(2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44

Topic

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

history

sheikh romance

McAlister, Jodi

(2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64

Topic

(2018) "Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction " Pirates in History and Popular Culture 109–119

Topic

pirates and outlaws

historical romance

Fraysse, Mélie

Garcia, Marie-Carmen

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

race/ethnicity

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

race/ethnicity

(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

health/medical

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Allan, Jonathan A.

(2020) Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(2020) “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria

(2021) “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey Master's Thesis, University of Bergen

Topic

Naeej, Elham

(2021) Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

Iran