![]() ![]() Reading the Romance is an ethnographic study of a group of 42 romance novel readers. The political goals behind this argument are of less interest to me than the example of active readership she demonstrates throughout the book. The hope being that if the public is alerted to a problem in cultural life, they will use this knowledge to advocate resistance and social change. As an American Studies scholar, Radway wanted to expose the culture of patriarchy that pervades modern life in America. 1991) as the text for our discussion of the history of reading and the history of book use. This week I assigned my students Janice Radway’s classic Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature(University of North Carolina Press, 1984 repr. ![]()
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