Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels

This article examines Mary Stolz’s Cold War adolescent girl romance novels—which I call “female junior novels”—to suggest that the dominant tropes that form the popular romance motifs within these texts (i. girls’ conformity, ii. girls’ use of “boy capital,” iii. girls’ collective establishment of a...

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Main Author: Amanda K. Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2012-10-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2012/10/charm-the-boys-win-the-girls-power-struggles-in-mary-stolzs-cold-war-adolescent-girl-romance-novels-by-amanda-k-allen/