Becoming a Woman Through RomanceUsing 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. |
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... Maddy Kemper of Seven Days to a Brand - New Me ( 3 : 1982 ) . The tradition of the quiet reserved heroine continues in these novels . Both Clara and Maddy are witty and outgoing with their female friends , but very insecure where boys ...
... Maddy Kemper of Seven Days to a Brand - New Me ( 3 : 1982 ) . The tradition of the quiet reserved heroine continues in these novels . Both Clara and Maddy are witty and outgoing with their female friends , but very insecure where boys ...
Page 85
... Maddy Kemper's dark counterpart . Like her predecessors , Mary Louise is presented as a teenage femme fatale who exists to thwart Maddy's romantic efforts with Adam Holmquist . Maddy characterizes Mary Louise as a sorceress who has ...
... Maddy Kemper's dark counterpart . Like her predecessors , Mary Louise is presented as a teenage femme fatale who exists to thwart Maddy's romantic efforts with Adam Holmquist . Maddy characterizes Mary Louise as a sorceress who has ...
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... Maddy Kemper . The novel opens as Maddy takes stock of herself , locating her problems as " shyness , lack of confidence , and feeling plain " ( 3 : 1982 , p . 47 ) . The goal of Maddy's self - improvement program is to project a " New ...
... Maddy Kemper . The novel opens as Maddy takes stock of herself , locating her problems as " shyness , lack of confidence , and feeling plain " ( 3 : 1982 , p . 47 ) . The goal of Maddy's self - improvement program is to project a " New ...
Contents
The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification | 43 |
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