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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The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification 43 3 | 43 |
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