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Becoming a Woman Through Romance (Paperback)
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Becoming a Woman Through Romance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
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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.
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