@article{Ohmann_2022, title={Teaching Note: Reading the Romance; Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature}, volume={123}, url={https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/1039}, DOI={10.5195/rt.2022.1039}, abstractNote={<p>  The phenomenal success of romances has naturally stirred the contempt of high culture critics, and more recently the concern of feminists, who have generally understood these narratives as promoting a kind of false consciousness, coating patriarchal values with a frosting of fantasy. The "Smithton women" appropriated romances as a pleasure strictly theirs, an antidote to the endless claims made on them by husbands and children, and a defense of "female" values like emotional sharing and (more or less) egalitarian marriage. [...]for many, regular reading of these books fed a kind of proto-feminism that made for real gains in their lives, within the limits patriarchy sets for women.</p>}, journal={Radical Teacher}, author={Ohmann, Richard}, year={2022}, month={Jul.}, pages={26–27} }