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Book Synopsis Becoming a Woman Through Romance by : Linda K. Christian-Smith
Download or read book Becoming a Woman Through Romance written by Linda K. Christian-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman’s destiny, and a woman’s place is in the home. These conservative political themes are woven throughout teen romance fiction’s sagas of hearts and flowers. Using the theory and interpretive methods of feminism and cultural studies, Christian-Smith explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in constructing gender, class, race, age and sexual meanings. Originally published in 1990, Becoming a Woman through Romance combines close textual analyses of thirty-four teen romance novels (written in the United States from 1942-1982) with a school study in three midwestern American schools. Christian-Smith situates teen romance fiction within the rapidly changing publishing industry and the important political and economic changes in the United States surrounding the rise of the New Right. By analysing the structure of the novels in terms of the themes of romance, sexuality and beautification, and the Good/Bad and Strong/Weak dichotomies, she demonstrates how each has shaped the novels’ versions of femininity over forty years. She also shows that although romance fiction is presented as a universal model, it is actually an expression of white middle class gender ideology and tension within this class. This high readable, comprehensive and coherent work was the first to combine in one volume three vital areas of cultural studies research: the political economy of publishing, textual analysis, and a study of readers. The first full-scale study of teen romance fiction, Becoming a Woman through Romance establishes the importance of the study of popular culture forms found in school for understanding the process of school materials in identity formation.
Book Synopsis Becoming a Woman Through Romance by : Linda K. Christian-Smith
Download or read book Becoming a Woman Through Romance written by Linda K. Christian-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using 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.
Book Synopsis Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality by : L. Sylvester
Download or read book Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality written by L. Sylvester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this period. This book tests current theories of language and desire through stylistic analysis, examining transitivity choices and speech acts in sexual encounters and conversations in medieval romances. In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of interest to scholars investigating language and sexuality as well as those researching and teaching medieval literature and culture.
Download or read book Becoming Hers written by Alyson Belle and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom McCallister has been in love with his best friend Lyla for as long as he can remember, but what would be the point of telling her that? He's known that it's hopeless ever since she came out to him as a lesbian during their freshman year of college. Lyla likes women, and Tom is definitely not a woman. But when Tom loses both his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Lyla is still the first person he turns to for support. She tells him to drop everything and fly out to see her in New York, confident that some friend time is exactly what he needs to get through his slump. On the plane ride over, Tom confesses his love for Lyla to a mysterious woman, takes a nap, and then wakes up in New York with some very surprising changes! He's been somehow transformed into a jaw-droppingly beautiful woman--a "megahottie," as Lyla would say. Tom has no idea what's going on and texts Lyla in a panic! Fortunately, Lyla is there just like always to help him out. But now that Tom is a woman, their whole dynamic has changed. Sparks fly between the two best friends almost immediately, and Tom realizes that as "Jess," he might finally be able to explore his real feelings for Lyla. Is it worth risking everything for a happily ever after?
Book Synopsis After The School Bell Rings by : Carl Grant Hoefs-Bascom
Download or read book After The School Bell Rings written by Carl Grant Hoefs-Bascom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American community of Rivercrest in a multi-racial junior school, this text provides a portrait of the beliefs and understandings held by students, teachers and administrators with respect to issues such as race, social class and gender.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of (erotic) Love by : Robert C. Solomon
Download or read book The Philosophy of (erotic) Love written by Robert C. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon and Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, Plays, and Criticism by : Amrita Paresh Patel
Download or read book Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, Plays, and Criticism written by Amrita Paresh Patel and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book, It Is Hoped, Will Create In The Readers Not Only An Interest In Sri Aurobindo`S Literary Work, But Also An Awareness About His Message Of Integralism And Its Continued Relevance For All Times.
Book Synopsis Reaching Adolescents by : Arthea J. S. Reed
Download or read book Reaching Adolescents written by Arthea J. S. Reed and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic text for young and adult/adolescent literature courses. An exciting new young adult literature text...one that offers a holistic, inclusive approach to incorporating the popular books young adults like to read into a solid English language arts curriculum. A student-centered, whole language emphasis advocates a curriculum that encourages student response to literature and helps develop crucial critical thinking skills. The author suggests numerous approaches to using young adult literature, explores and demonstrates a variety of teaching methods, and discusses an array of literature appropriate for a wide range of students in a number of subject areas, including literature written specifically for children and young adults, popular adult literature, and the classics.
Book Synopsis An Impossible Woman - A Contemporary Romance by : Kat Davidson
Download or read book An Impossible Woman - A Contemporary Romance written by Kat Davidson and published by Kate Harper. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayne Ellis is worried. Her beautiful sister Fleur is besotted with a playboy, neglecting her studies and ruining her future. Which is why Jayne decides to approach Dante Fiorelli, the boy's rich and powerful uncle. Dante will help, but he wants Jayne involved. But dealing with the dark and delicious Dante is hard. Especially when he decides little Jayne might merit her own, intimate exploration. - 50760 words.
Download or read book Audiences written by Nicholas Abercrombie and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book is worth reading for a number of reasons. It is the first introductory work of critical audience research that suggests how we can study the connection of media consumption in general with every day life, and it also goes beyond its competitors in showing how postmodern thinking can help us in the analysis of a "whole way of life"′ - Journal of Communication Audiences are problematic and the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. Offering a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate Audiences argues the case for a paradigmatic shift in audience research. This shift, argue the authors, is necessitated by the emergence of the `diffused audience′. Audience experience can no longer be simply classified as `simple′ or `mass′, for in modern advanced capitalist societies, people are members of an audience all the time. Being a member of an audience is no longer an exceptional event, nor even an everyday event, rather it is constitutive of everyday life. This book offers an invaluable review of the literature and a new point of departure for audience research.
Download or read book Romantic Love written by Yolanda van Ede and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Romance and Exemplarity in Post-war Spanish Women's Narratives by : Nino Kebadze
Download or read book Romance and Exemplarity in Post-war Spanish Women's Narratives written by Nino Kebadze and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of women's post-war literary representations in terms of exemplarity. The effects of General Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule (1939-1975) on the production and reception of cultural texts can be gauged by the silence that now surrounds them. This is especially true of works which enjoyed considerable popularity when first published. Most of the novels in question belong to the sentimental genre known as novela rosa, whose authors-mostly women-and heroines Academe has consistently treated as literary pariahs. This volume represents the first serious effort to question the categories used to assess the value and meaning of texts previously presumed to be devoid of both. It does so by bringing to the fore the operative premise of Francoist cultural politics, wherein fictional works have the power to mould individual character and conduct. Narratives by Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and María Mercedes Ortoll are thus examined in terms of the effects that they were expected to have on their readers, and the constraints that such expectations placed on the works' production and reception. The result is a paradox: while the study of women's bestselling novels is by definition a study of the constraints that shape them, careful reading reveals the limitations of those selfsame constraints. NINO KEBADZE is an Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Book Synopsis North American Romance Writers by : Kay Mussell
Download or read book North American Romance Writers written by Kay Mussell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Kay Mussell and Johanna Tu n collect essays by contemporary North American romance authors who have come to prominence, directly or indirectly, as a result of the huge change in the field of romance writing which started in the early 1980s. New publishing houses began to compete with Harlequin, and the North American romance novel came into its own as a genre. In their essays on their own work, each of the writers in this volume describes her own "take" on the romance novel today and how she has adapted the form to accommodate her own voice and concerns. Collectively, these writers have used the romance genre to address a broad range of social issues and problems. Presenting these essays together provides a window into the creativity and originality of some of the best writers in the field.
Book Synopsis Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama by : S. P. Cerasano
Download or read book Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama written by S. P. Cerasano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.
Book Synopsis The Firefighter's Woman 2: Interracial Romance by : Tressie Lockwood
Download or read book The Firefighter's Woman 2: Interracial Romance written by Tressie Lockwood and published by Tressie Lockwood. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evan broke up with Marlena and left Forest's End. She thinks it was because of her weight and her education. Marlena decides she would've never had her heart broken if she'd just kept dating her own race. Yeah, right! So she's dating a sexy black man when Evan returns trying to get her back. Marlena is not having it. Unfortunately, she still loves him. While she works to obtain her degree and runs with the amazing career opportunity that she's been offered, she has to guard her heart from the sexy firefighter that never gave it back in the first place. ** interracial romance, multicultural romance, ir, contemporary romance, firefighter
Book Synopsis Perversions of Romance by : Stephanie Graham Becker
Download or read book Perversions of Romance written by Stephanie Graham Becker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Love-Shy Survival Guide by : Talmer Shockley
Download or read book The Love-Shy Survival Guide written by Talmer Shockley and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the condition of love-shyness, its links with Asperger's syndrome, and how it differs from common forms of shyness.
