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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... lives of all teenage girls as well . As a number of feminists have argued , romance in general plays a particularly important role in teenage girls ' lives . Investigating the place held by the meaning of romance , and how it is ...
... lives of all teenage girls as well . As a number of feminists have argued , romance in general plays a particularly important role in teenage girls ' lives . Investigating the place held by the meaning of romance , and how it is ...
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... lives of the actual women and men who consume , use , and make sense of them in the contexts of their daily practices and social relations . 11 The meanings that are produced in popular cultural forms , then , do make a difference in ...
... lives of the actual women and men who consume , use , and make sense of them in the contexts of their daily practices and social relations . 11 The meanings that are produced in popular cultural forms , then , do make a difference in ...
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... lives in the United States from 1942 to 1982. I draw parallels between key historical events and the content of romance fiction , arguing that the novels re - code larger social tensions , especially those repre- sented by the New Right ...
... lives in the United States from 1942 to 1982. I draw parallels between key historical events and the content of romance fiction , arguing that the novels re - code larger social tensions , especially those repre- sented by the New Right ...
Contents
The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification | 43 |
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