Romance Revisited

Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey

Lawrence & Wishart, 1995 - Business & Economics - 310 pages

After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central preoccupation in the lives of most women. Romance is still the most compelling discourse by which any one of us is inscribed. In this newly commisioned critical collection, romance is revisited across the discipllines, not just in fiction and film but in a whole range of cultural phenomena. Essays range over such issues as the royal marriage, Valentine's Day, 'interracial' relationships and the romance of the scientific quest. All kinds of relationships are brought under the lens of feminist cultural theory - from sex and the single nun to Yukio Mishima, from snuglet puglet to safe sex.

Contents

• 69: 9
• Complicity Resistance: 49
• Nature and Scientific Discovery: 63
• Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern: 78
• Middlebrow and Popular: 89
• Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister: 103
• Addicted to Love: 117
• Bryhers Two Selves as Lesbian Romance: 128
• Lesbian Erotica in the Age of AIDS: 143
• The Postmodern Romances of Feminist Science Fiction: 158
• White Subjectivity and Interracial: 171
• White Girls are Easy Black Girls are Studs: 184
• Interskin Colour Relations: 197
• Love in Black and White: 210
• The Charles and Di Story: 225
• Reading Staging and Resisting: 238
• Alter: 251
• Family Romances and: 265
• Working Class Womens: 279
• Womens Fiction: 293
• Notes on the Contributors: 306

Bibliographic information

• Title: Romance Revisited
• Editors: Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart, 1995
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 4, 2008
• ISBN: 0853158053, 9780853158059
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Consumer Behavior; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Men's Studies