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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154736403321

Autore

Dyhouse Carol

Titolo

Heartthrobs : a history of women and desire / / Carol Dyhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-19-882812-8

0-19-107838-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.7082

Soggetti

Women - Sexual behavior

Sex (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Epigraphs -- Introduction -- Her heart's desire : What did women want? -- Unbridled passions -- Packaging the male -- Once upon a dream : Prince Charming, cavaliers, Regency beaux -- Dark princes, foreign powers : desert lovers, outsiders, and vampires -- Soulmates : intimacy, integrity, trust -- Power : protection, transformative magic, and patriarchy -- Sighing for the moon?

Sommario/riassunto

In Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carole Dyhouse draws upon literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and 'fandom', she takes us deep into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of feminist literature has shown women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes of women.