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The Glass Slipper - Women and Love Stories (Paperback, New)
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The Glass Slipper - Women and Love Stories (Paperback, New)
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Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still
aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism,
traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway
and, in our "postfeminist" age, are more popular than ever.
Increasingly, we have become a culture of romance: stories of all
kinds shape the terms of love. Women, in particular, love a love
story."The Glass Slipper" is about the persistence of a familiar
Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing
influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan Ostrov
Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these stories are
shaped and defined by and for women, the main consumers of romantic
texts. Following a trajectory that begins with Jane Austen and
concludes with Internet dating sites, Weisser shows the many ways
in which nineteenth-century views of women's nature and the
Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist critique of
the 1970s and continue in new and more ambiguous forms in today's
media, with profound implications for women.More than a book about
romance in fiction and media, "The Glass Slipper" illustrates how
traditional stories about women's sexuality, femininity, and
romantic love have survived as seemingly protective elements in a
more modern, feminist, sexually open society, confusing the picture
for women themselves. Weisser compares diverse
narratives--historical and contemporary from high literature and
"low" genres--discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte
Bronte, Victorian women's magazines, and D. H. Lawrence's "Lady
Chatterley's Lover"; Disney movies; popular Harlequin romance
novels; masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship
to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic
stories.Ultimately, Weisser shows that the narrative versions of
the Glass Slipper should be taken as seriously as the Glass Ceiling
as we see how these representations of romantic love are meant to
inform women's beliefs and goals. In this book, Weisser's goal is
not to shatter the Glass Slipper, but to see through it.
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