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After
nearly three decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly
in place as the most compelling discourse by which any one of us is inscribed.
In this critical collection, romance is revisited across the disciplines,
not just in fiction and film but in a whole range of cultural phenomena. Essays
range over such issues as the royal marriage, Valentine's Day, 'inter-racial
relationships' and the romance of the scientific quest. All kinds of relationships
are brought under the lens of feminist cultural theory - from sex and the
single nun to Yukio Mishima.
Contributors: Inge Blackman, Helen (charles), Diana Collecott, Jean
Duncombe, Joan Forbes, Bridget Fowler, Sarah Franklin, Judy Giles, Gabrielle
Griffin, Stevi Jackson, Wendy Langford, Steph Lawler, Celia Lury, Dennis Marsden,
Kathryn Perry, Felly Nkewto Simmonds, Lizzie Thynne, Sue Vice, Rosalynn Voaden,
Jenny Wolmark.
Lynne Pearce is Lecturer in English and Women's Studies at Lancaster
University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feminism and the
Politics of Reading.
Jackie Stacey is author of Star Gazing and Female Spectatorship
(1994) and lectures in the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies
at Lancaster University.