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Heartthrobs - A History of Women and Desire (Hardcover)
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Heartthrobs - A History of Women and Desire (Hardcover)
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What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women,
desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or
dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire
lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family
types or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us
as much about the history of women as about masculine icons. When
girls were supposed to be shrinking violets, passionate females
risked being seen as 'unbridled', or dangerously out of control.
Change came slowly, and young women remained trapped in
double-binds. You may have needed a husband in order to survive,
but you had to avoid looking like a gold-digger. Sexual desire
could be dangerous: a rash guide to making choices. Show attraction
too openly and you might be judged 'fast' and undesirable.
Education and wage-earning brought independence and a widening of
cultural horizons. Young women in the early twentieth century
showed a sustained appetite for novel-reading, cinema-going, and
the dancehall. They sighed over Rudolph Valentino's screen
performances, as tango-dancer, Arab tribesman, or desert lover.
Contemporary critics were sniffy about 'shop-girl' taste in
literature and in men, but as consumers, girls had new clout. In
Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carol Dyhouse draws upon
literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing
position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord
Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early
twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and
on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and 'fandom', she takes us deep
into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of
feminist literature has shown women as objects of the 'male gaze':
this book looks at men through the eyes of women.
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