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200 14$aThe glass slipper $ewomen and love stories /$fSusan Ostrov Weisser
210  1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2013]
210  4$d©2013
215   $a1 online resource (254 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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311   $a1-299-95318-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction: Women and the story of romantic love -- The odd couple: mating Jane Austen with D. H. Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? -- Modern romance: three versions of love in reality/"reality" -- Conclusion: If the glass slipper fits.
330   $aWhy is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our "postfeminist" age, are more popular than ever. Increasingly, we have become a culture of romance: stories of all kinds shape the terms of love. Women, in particular, love a love story. The Glass Slipper is about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan Ostrov Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these stories are shaped and defined by and for women, the main consumers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that begins with Jane Austen and concludes with Internet dating sites, Weisser shows the many ways in which nineteenth-century views of women's nature and the Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist critique of the 1970's and continue in new and more ambiguous forms in today's media, with profound implications for women. More than a book about romance in fiction and media, The Glass Slipper illustrates how traditional stories about women's sexuality, femininity, and romantic love have survived as seemingly protective elements in a more modern, feminist, sexually open society, confusing the picture for women themselves. Weisser compares diverse narratives-historical and contemporary from high literature and "low" genres-discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontė, Victorian women's magazines, and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover; Disney movies; popular Harlequin romance novels; masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic stories. Ultimately, Weisser shows that the narrative versions of the Glass Slipper should be taken as seriously as the Glass Ceiling as we see how these representations of romantic love are meant to inform women's beliefs and goals. In this book, Weisser's goal is not to shatter the Glass Slipper, but to see through it.
606   $aLove stories$xHistory and criticism
606   $aWomen and literature
606   $aWomen in literature
606   $aLove in literature
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aLove stories$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aWomen and literature.
615  0$aWomen in literature.
615  0$aLove in literature.
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