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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
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Ali, Kecia
(2018)
Romance Fiction in the Archives
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
7:
Allan, Jonathan A.
(2016)
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus
Regina:
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Allan, Jonathan A.
(2020)
Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance
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Lynch, Katherine E.
Sternglantz, Ruth E.
Barot, Len
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Betz, Phyllis M.
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Betz, Phyllis M.
(2017)
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Bronstein, Carolyn
(2014)
The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.1:
Brown, Eleanor M.
(2001)
Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre
Master of Arts,
West Chester University
Brunet, Peyton
Davis, Blair
(2022)
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Austin:
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Carter, Ellen
(2020)
Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Chaplin, Sue
(2019)
‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Gothic Studies
21.1:10-27
Chappel, Deborah K.
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LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:107-120
Cook, Jennifer R.
Rostosky, Sharon S.
Riggle, Ellen D. B.
(2013)
Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
Crisp, Thomas
(2009)
From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction
Children’s Literature in Education
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Brunet, Peyton
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Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Austin:
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de Jesús, Melinda L.
(2001)
"Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
12.3:313–334
Delamoir, Jeanette
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Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush
Hecate
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Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century
Neo-Victorian Studies
13.1:242-269
Egan, Jesi
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Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
62.3:462-80
Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda
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Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels
Masters,
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Fanetti, Susan
(2022)
New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century
Jefferson, North Carolina:
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Faust, Meredith S.
(2010)
"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
Master of Arts,
DePaul University
Feng, Jin
(2009)
"Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
21.2:1-41
Flegel, Monica
Roth, Jenny
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Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures
4:
Foster, Guy Mark
(2015)
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions
Journal of Bisexuality
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Frantz, Sarah S. G.
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"Suzanne Brockmann"
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
2.2/3:1-19
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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
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Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes
Journal of Lesbian Studies
22.4:390-401
Gillis, Stacy
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The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades
Women: A Cultural Review
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Henderson, Alex
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Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
12:
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Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western
Master of Arts,
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Herendeen, Ann
(2012)
The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
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Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
Hermes, Joke
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Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen?
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Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
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Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Juhasz, Suzanne
(1998)
Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice
Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature
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‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck
Women's History Review
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Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels
PhD thesis,
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Vivanco, Laura
Kramer, Kyra
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There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.1:
Lambert, Jérémy
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Le roman sentimental gay francophone
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
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McAlister, Jodi
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“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Parnell, Claire
Trinidad, Andrea Anne
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#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family
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Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle
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(2022)
Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre
PhD thesis,
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Modleski, Tania
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Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica
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McAlister, Jodi
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The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu
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Pritchard, Jamee N.
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Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Pryde, Jessica P.
(2022)
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After
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Rostosky, Sharon S.
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Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
Riseman, Noah
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Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction
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Roach, Catherine M.
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Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
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Romney, Rebecca
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M.S. in Library Science,
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Ross, Marlon B.
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“What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel
Callaloo
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Cook, Jennifer R.
Rostosky, Sharon S.
Riggle, Ellen D. B.
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Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians
Journal of Lesbian Studies
17.2:150-166
Flegel, Monica
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Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures
4:
Secrease, Cassandra L
(2000)
A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes
Master of Arts,
Central Missouri State University
Seifrit, Rachel Joy
(2021)
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction
M.A. English,
Kutztown University
Šmídová, Monika Markéta
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Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles
Masters,
Masaryk University
Lynch, Katherine E.
Sternglantz, Ruth E.
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
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(2020)
Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
McAlister, Jodi
Parnell, Claire
Trinidad, Andrea Anne
(2020)
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family
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Vivanco, Laura
Kramer, Kyra
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There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre
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Vivanco, Laura
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Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction
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Vivanco, Laura
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Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Wagner, Wendy
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Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
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Weimer, Christopher
(2021)
Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies
8.1:61-76
Whalen, Kacey
(2017)
A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership
MA thesis,
DePaul University
White, Bonnie
(2022)
Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Wood, Andrea
(2008)
Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins
PhD,
University of Florida
Wood, Andrea
(2015)
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women
Feminist Studies
41.2:293-334
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(2014)
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965
Journal of Lesbian Studies
18.4:372-392
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Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students
The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
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