Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different
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"Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different" (1979) is a text by Ann Barr Snitow. It was anthologized in Powers of Desire by Ann Barr Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson.
- "These novels [ Harlequin romance] are too pallid to shape consciousness but they feed certain regressive elements in the female experience. ... Since all action in the novels is described from the female point of view, the reader identifies with the heroine's efforts to ..."
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See also
- Carol Thurston, The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity, (Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1987)
- Romance fiction
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