Daphne Clair

Hanson, Donna Maree

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

Topic

readers

authors

feminism

gender

science fiction/futuristic romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(1992) Women's romantic fiction: a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors MA thesis, University of Auckland

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

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

feminism

Daphne Clair

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

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

McAlpine, Rachel

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

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