The article discusses the popularity of Amish romance novels by Beverly Lewis, Cindy Woodsmall, Wanda Brunstetter, and others, and attributes it to a desire among readers for love stories centered around chastity, modesty, and fidelity.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
Most of the readers of erotic novels that responded to our survey are heterosexual women in committed relationships. They are highly educated, from a broad age span, describe themselves as avid readers and like to share their reading experiences with others. Distraction and feelings of ease were ...
Yet jokes about the women who read50 Shades of Greyproliferate in the media, and critics often questionwhythe books were so successful in the first place. Why are romance novels (and readers of romance) the object of ridicule, and why do so many women read them anyway? This course will ...
I started reading romance novels in college at my mother’s insistence (long-ish story). As a student of women’s literature, she declared that I couldn’t legitimately receive such a degree without reading the most popular and profitable books by women, for women, about women. Of all time...
Women all over were openly declaring their love for the trilogy, spawning themed parties and sex toys. How awesome is it for a book to do that? 5. Because It's OK to Feel Our Feelings If there's one thing that romance novels have, it's an abundance of feelings. Heartbreak, elation,...
“The vast majority of what we watch is from the male perspective—authored, directed, and filmed by men, and mostly straight white men at that,” fan culture analyst Elizabeth Minkelwrote atNew Statesman. “Fanfiction gives women and other marginalised groups the chance to subvert that ...
up when they learned that she actually bleeds. Nick apologises to her about it. But Jessi releases her inner-angry feminist and screams to the boys, “Why are you apologising? It’s not a disease!”. F*ck yes. Why doesn’t rape get the same disgust from men like how menstruation ...
It’s not just me but my best friend also reads them. We’re both intelligent women, with good degrees and jobs, in fairly academic roles. We both read a lot – although I do admit my friend’s choices are more high brow on the literary side than mine nowadays. Pre-children we used...
That an estimated one in five women in London made income from the sex trade? That the man who invented one of the world’s earliest self-propelled wheelchairs did so after demonstrating another invention: the world’s first roller skates? I love to read about history, and now I’m not ...
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