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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... romance novels in general are immensely popular and profitable . The audience for these kinds of books has ex- panded markedly among girls ages nine through fifteen , however . Teen romance novels now rank within the very top categories of ...
... romance novels in general are immensely popular and profitable . The audience for these kinds of books has ex- panded markedly among girls ages nine through fifteen , however . Teen romance novels now rank within the very top categories of ...
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... books and they use them in different ways , reconstructing the book's meanings as they go along . This is an important point . Readers of these and other kinds of romance novels are not unthinking dupes , people who are wholly taken in ...
... books and they use them in different ways , reconstructing the book's meanings as they go along . This is an important point . Readers of these and other kinds of romance novels are not unthinking dupes , people who are wholly taken in ...
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... romance novels and their readers , ' it is only recently that teen romance novels been critically analyzed despite their popularity ( Christian - Smith , 1986 , 1987 ) . Becoming a Woman Through Romance is about femininity , about how ...
... romance novels and their readers , ' it is only recently that teen romance novels been critically analyzed despite their popularity ( Christian - Smith , 1986 , 1987 ) . Becoming a Woman Through Romance is about femininity , about how ...
Contents
The Code of Romance | 16 |
The Code of Sexuality | 30 |
The Code of Beautification | 43 |
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