Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway

Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

Janice A. Radway

274 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction feminism romance reflective slow-paced
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Janice Radway challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture have claimed t...

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