Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women

by Tania Modleski

Book Overview

Upon its first publication, Loving with a Vengeance was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0416009913
• ISBN13: 9780416009910
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Loving With a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women

This is a great book for anyone interested in contemporary women's studies. Modleski looks at women's entertainment genres (soap operas, romances, gothic novels, and women's film) that have previously been over-looked by critics and theorists alike. Modleski gives a convincing argument for resistence within the orthodox plot that shows how these seemingly simple-minded story lines offer women a chance to escape subjectivity and find a place of power in a patriarchal society. Though Modelski's argument can be a bit hard to wade through, it is worth taking the extra time to understand her point. It will influence the way you look at popular women's entertainment forever.