TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radway,Janice A.
TI  - Reading the romance: women, patriarchy, and popular literature 
SN  - 0807843490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - Z1039.W65 R33 1991
U1  - 028/.9082 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - Popular literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Patriarchy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index; Cover Page--Reading the Romance--Copyright Page--Dedication--Contents--Acknowledgments--Introduction--1 The Institutional Matrix Publishing Romantic Fiction--The Readers and Their Romances--Act of Reading the Romance Escape and Instruction--The Ideal Romance The Promise of Patriarchy--The Failed Romance Too Close to the Problems of Patriarchy--Language and Narrative Discourse The Ideology of Female Identity

ER  -