Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for WomenUpon its first publication, Loving with a Vengeance was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania Modleski has revisited her widely read book, bringing to this new edition a review of the issues that have, in the intervening years, shaped and reshaped questions of women's reading. With her trademark acuity and understanding of the power both of the mass-produced object, film, television, or popular literature, and the complex workings of reading and reception, she offers here a framework for thinking about one of popular culture's central issues. This edition includes a new introduction, a new chapter, and changes throughout the existing text. |
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition | xi |
1 MassProduced Fantasies For Women | xxxiii |
2 The Disappearing Act | lix |
3 The Female Uncanny | lxxxiii |
4 The Search for Tomorrow in Todays Soap Operas | cix |
Afterword | cxxxv |
Notes | cxli |
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