Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway

Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature



Download eBook




Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Janice A. Radway ebook
Page: 306
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0807843499, 9780807843499
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press


Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988. Billington; Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Janice Radway, Northwestern U, received the 2012 Fellows Book Award for her 1984 book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (U of North Carolina Press). In 1984, Janice Radway published Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, at the time the most comprehensive study of romance novels and their readers. [3] Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Happydork gave me her copy of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature on the strict condition that I love and cherish it, which I promised earnestly to do! Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Lectures in the History of American Civilization 1986. Presented at: The 2005 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference – St. Radway examines the role of romantic fiction in the space of popular literature. She says: “it is tempting to suggest that romantic fiction must be an active agent in the maintenance of the ideological status quo because it ultimately reconciles women to patriarchal society and reintegrates them with its institutions” (p. She finds that romantic fiction fulfills the needs of middle class women whose needs are not being met by their marriages and roles in life. Tags:Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, tutorials, pdf, djvu, chm, epub, ebook, book, torrent, downloads, rapidshare, filesonic, hotfile, fileserve. A third path was her interest in psychoanalysis, especially in Nancy Chodorow's work, Reading the romance: Women, patriarchy, and popular literature. Radway is approaching this from the perspective of Romances satisfy women's needs that are not met by patriarchy, yet the texts reinforce that patriarchy is the ultimate happiness and satisfaction. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. [2] Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 379-81.

More eBooks:
Consumer Behavior & Marketing Strategy, Ninth Edition book download
Handbook of Offshore Engineering volume 2 ebook download
Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids download