INTRODUCTION In the late 1970s and 1980s, there was a boom of academic interest in romance reading (Modleski; Radway "Women Read", Reading; Thurston; Christian-Smith; Fowler). Scholars wanted to understand why this apparently anti-feminist pastime persisted into a new age of gender equality (Barra; Reid Boyd). One of the most influential studies to emerge from this
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