pornography

science fiction/futuristic romance

Valverde, Mariana

(1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press

Topic

Thomas, Audrey

(1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

work

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

Topic

erotic romance

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

Topic

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

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

social/economic class

work

community

Assiter, Alison

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

Topic

Stern, Barbara B.

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

Topic

(1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

(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

evolutionary psychology

(2006) "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance " Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 79–96

Topic

(2006) "The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

Topic

E. M. Hull

(2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19

Topic

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

libraries/librarians

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

libraries/librarians

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

libraries/librarians

Wood, Andrea

(2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

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

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

Topic

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

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

evolutionary psychology

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

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

Topic

African American romance

race/ethnicity

McAlister, Jodi

(2015) Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy Analyses/Rereadings/Theories 3.2:23-33

Topic

(2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238

Topic

Teague, Anna Sophia Wester

(2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

(2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

erotic romance

(2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

authors

religion/spirituality

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(2018) "“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age " Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 269-294

Topic

Neville, Lucy

(2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

m/m romance

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

Topic

BDSM

Alexis Hall

Spears, Jessica D.

(2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

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

Topic

(2021) "Gender and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 428-453 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-20

Topic

lesbian romance

m/m romance

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

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

McCann, Hannah

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

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

McCann, Hannah

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

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Allan, Jonathan A.

(2023) Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels Porn Studies 10:3: 283-298 DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2189899

Topic

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

race/ethnicity

Parnell, Claire

(2023) Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA: DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477

Topic

Publishing

paratext

race/ethnicity

Vermeer, Lina

(2023) The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts Master of Arts, Trent University

Topic

fanfiction

genre definitions