I got the opportunity to write a guest post on feminism and romance novels, and I jumped at it.
It expands some of the issues I touched on in The Argument for Love. Since I submitted this piece, yet another news story came out about the growing economic power of the romance genre. We women are [...]
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For years, I bought into the argument that romance novels support the notion that women can only be happy when they have a man in their life.
Those who make that argument typically don’t read romance novels, and I was definitely in that camp. After a brief flirtation with Harlequins and Silhouettes when I was 9 [...]
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Romance novels have been the subject of many articles lately. Typically, the authors point out how recession-proof the industry is, shining like a beacon of success in our crumbling economy. But one author took a story of success and used it to deride a genre of books that is beloved by many.
Read the article here. [...]
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