Becoming a Woman Through Romance"Using approaches from feminism and cultural studies, this work explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in the construction of gender, class, race, age, and sexual meanings. Christian-Smith dissects the conservative political themes underlying thirty-four teen romance novels, demonstrating how their flowery versions of romance and femininity actually inscribe white middle class gender ideology and class tensions."--Book desc. amazon.com. |
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... heroine and connect form ( the binary opposites ) with content ( the codes of romance , beautification , and ... heroine's character is established through comparing her actions and attitudes to those of other characters . This ...
... heroine and connect form ( the binary opposites ) with content ( the codes of romance , beautification , and ... heroine's character is established through comparing her actions and attitudes to those of other characters . This ...
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... heroine's character in this romance fiction . Although forty years separate an Angie Morrow from a Maddy Kemper ... heroine . The heroine is the lone Cinderella sitting in a corner , dreaming of her prince . By the end of each ...
... heroine's character in this romance fiction . Although forty years separate an Angie Morrow from a Maddy Kemper ... heroine . The heroine is the lone Cinderella sitting in a corner , dreaming of her prince . By the end of each ...
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... heroine's hesitation to become romantically involved because she feels that romance is simply unimportant . Here the heroine is happy just as she is . Nonetheless , the heroine eventually commits herself to ro- mance and experiences ...
... heroine's hesitation to become romantically involved because she feels that romance is simply unimportant . Here the heroine is happy just as she is . Nonetheless , the heroine eventually commits herself to ro- mance and experiences ...
Contents
The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification 43 3 | 43 |
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