| Description |
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit Romance / Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce -- Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change / Stevi Jackson -- Romancing the Helix: Nature and Scientific Discovery / Sarah Franklin -- The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction / Rosalynn Voaden -- Literature Beyond Modernism: Middlebrow and Popular Romance / Bridget Fowler -- The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister / Lizzie Thynne -- Addicted to Love / Sue Vice -- Bryher's Two Selves as Lesbian Romance / Diana Collecott -- Safe and Sexy: Lesbian Erotica in the Age of AIDS / Gabriele Griffin -- The Postmodern Romances of Feminist Science Fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- The Heart of Whiteness: White Subjectivity and Interracial Relationships / Kathryn Perry -- White Girls are Easy, Black Girls are Studs / Inge Blackman -- (Not) Compromising: Inter-skin Colour Relations / Helen (charles) |
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Love in Black and White / Felly Nkweto Simmonds -- A Public Romance: 'The Charles and Di Story' / Celia Lury -- 'Can Men Love?': 'Reading', 'Staging' and 'Resisting' the Romance / Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden -- 'Snuglet Puglet Loves to Snuggle with Snuglet Piglet': Alter Personalities in Heterosexual Love Relationships / Wendy Langford -- 'I never felt as though I fitted': Family Romances and the Mother-Daughter Relationship / Steph Lawler -- 'You Meet 'Em and That's It': Working Class Women's Refusal of Romance Between the Wars in Britain / Judy Giles -- Anti-Romantic Discourse as Resistance: Women's Fiction 1775-1820 / Joan Forbes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Pearce, Lynne.
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Stacey, Jackie.
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| LC no. |
95018509 |
| ISBN |
0814766307 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0814766315 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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