Becoming a woman through romance

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"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.

subjects: Young adult fiction,  Popular literature,  History and criticism,  Books and reading,  Young women,  Education,  Love stories,  Adolescence in literature,  Love in literature,  Romance fiction,  American literature,  Jeunes femmes,  Livres et lecture,  Histoires d'amour,  Histoire et critique,  Roman pour jeunes adultes,  Paralittérature,  Femmes,  Éducation,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  General,  Romance-language fiction,  Liefdesverhalen,  Vrouwen,  Trivialer Frauenroman,  Weibliche Jugend