Becoming a Woman Through Romance
Original title: Becoming a woman through romance
earliest edition we have, 1990 Routledge, 2021 paperback 226 pages
"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...
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