Male virginity
Often enough stereotypes of romance novels rely on a simple yet seemingly appropriate enough logic: alpha male + virgin = romance. While there are certainly more than enough virginal heroines in...
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Back in 1979, during the first wave of popular romance criticism, Ann Barr Snitow claimed that “virginity is a given” in the mass-market category romance. Things changed for heroines some time ago; in...
View ArticleFeminist romance
A professor of mine once said that all literary critics are either lumpers or splitters. Lumpers enjoy finding patterns in large groups of texts—an author’s entire oeuvre, a literary genre, a whole...
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