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Good-Bye Heathcliff - Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women's Category Romances (Hardcover)
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Good-Bye Heathcliff - Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women's Category Romances (Hardcover)
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Virginal Heroines, young and naive but seething with passion,
change sardonic heroes into loving, monogamous husbands. Such
romance novel characters and themes have been transformed by the
women's movement, argues history professor Frenier in this
convincing, well-researched study. Frenier surveys earlier feminist
studies of women's romances and traces the evolution of the romance
industry, focusing on the competition between Harlequin's more
traditional British writers and the American authors of Silhouette.
She finds undertones of rape and violence in late 1970s novels
giving way to more explicit and equal sexuality, to gentler, more
nurturing heroes matched with stronger, more experienced heroines.
By the late 1980s, premarital sex and women's careers are assumed
in many novels, but the heroines greatest power remains her ability
to inspire her hero to addictive, obsessive love . . . the subject
is fascinating. Booklist Now claiming an audience that includes
nearly one-third of adult women in the United States, popular
romance fiction is holding its own against competing media and has
shown an ability to keep abreast of changing tastes. In the first
recent book-length analysis of the subject, Frenier looks at
developments in this literary genre in light of feminist issues and
the pervasive social changes that continue to affect women in the
post-World War II decades. Exploring traditional and more
contemporary depictions of romantic heroines, as well as changing
approaches to sexuality, she assesses the degree to which the
values of the sexual revolution and women's movement have
penetrated this form of popular culture.
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