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Romantic love has challenged and vexed feminist thought from its
origins. Judging from the shelves of books advising women on love
problems, there seems to be an ongoing difficulty in maintaining
equality in romantic relationships. Does romance weaken or empower
women? Why do women seem overwhelmingly attracted to romantic love
in spite of raised consciousness in other areas of life that is a
legacy of feminism? Have women always been seen as the sex which
most seeks love and is best suited for love?
These are some of the questions Women and Romance: A Reader
seeks to address in bringing together a collection of texts
specifically focused on the subject of women's conflicted but
powerful urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of
romantic love. The first anthology of its kind, Women and Romance
includes historical as well as contemporary selections, personal
letters as well as theoretical essays, and social science
perspectives as well as literary criticism of the novel and the
popular mass-market romance. Wiesser lays out in systematic order
for the first time the varying viewpoints and conflicted history of
feminist views on romance, from Mary Wollstonecraft and Emma
Goldman to Germaine Greer and Lillian Faderman.
Introductions to each entry and section clarify the emerging
themes of each era and of separate disciplines, while representing
the views of traditionalists and anti-romance second-wave feminists
alike.
Contributors include: Charlotte Bronte, Barbara Bross, Eliza
Southgate Bowne, Rita Mae Brown, Andreas Capellanus, Patricia Hill
Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Emily Dickinson,
George Eliot, Lillian Faderman, Shulamith Firestone, Moderata
Fonte, Mary Gaitskill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emma Goldman,
Vivian Gornick, Germaine Greer, Lynne Harne, bell hooks, Karen
Horney, Carolyn Heilbrun, Audre Lorde, Tania Modleski, Gloria
Naylor, Mary Poovey, Janice Radway, William Robinson, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Jane Rule, Barbara Ryan, Ann Snitow, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Gloria Steinem, Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Woodhull,
Virginia Woolf.
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