Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines
The human body is a cultural text, and can be therefore be used to promote or resist various social norms. Jennifer Crusie, who defines herself as a writer of feminist romances, uses the bodies of her heroines to countermand several patriarchal assumptions about femininity. Within the Western patria...
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Language: | English |
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2012-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Popular Romance Studies |
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Online Access: | https://www.jprstudies.org/2012/04/getting-laid-getting-old-and-getting-fed-the-cultural-resistance-of-jennifer-crusies-romance-heroines-by-kyra-kramer/ |