A work which considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not just the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told. It discusses recent women's films and changes occurring in traditional women's genres such as romances and melodrama.
Reviewing the issues that have shaped and reshaped questions of women's reading, this book is a study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction.
Modleski examines 'post-feminism' in popular culture particularly through popular film. The discussion focuses on issues such as surrogate motherhood, women and war, pornography and gay representation in the era of AIDS.
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