Becoming a woman through romance
By: Linda K. Christian-Smith.
Series: Critical social thought
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Young women -- Books and reading.; Love stories -- History and criticism.; Young adult fiction -- History and criticism.; Popular literature -- History and criticism.; Young women -- Education.
Description: "Using approaches from feminism and cultural studies, this work explores the contradictory role that popular culture plays in the construction of gender, class, race, age, and sexual meanings. Christian-Smith dissects the conservative political themes underlying thirty-four teen romance novels, demonstrating how their flowery versions of romance and femininity actually inscribe white middle class gender ideology and class tensions."--book desc. amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-197) and index.