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- Publication Name
- The Glass Slipper
- Title
- The Glass Slipper
- Book Title
- Glass Slipper : Women and Love Stories
- Subtitle
- Women and Love Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0813561779
- EAN
- 9780813561776
- ISBN
- 9780813561776
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- Love & Romance, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, General, Gothic & Romance, Women's Studies
- Release Date
- 09/10/2013
- Release Year
- 2013
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 254 Pages
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Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our "postfeminist" age, are more popular than ever. Increasingly, we have become a culture of romance: stories of all kinds shape the terms of love. Women, in particular, love a love story. The Glass Slipper is about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan Ostrov Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these stories are shaped and defined by and for women, the main consumers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that begins with Jane Austen and concludes with Internet dating sites, Weisser shows the many ways in which nineteenth-century views of women's nature and the Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist critique of the 1970s and continue in new and more ambiguous forms in today's media, with profound implications for women. More than a book about romance in fiction and media, The Glass Slipper illustrates how traditional stories about women's sexuality, femininity, and romantic love have survived as seemingly protective elements in a more modern, feminist, sexually open society, confusing the picture for women themselves. Weisser compares diverse narratives--historical and contemporary from high literature and "low" genres--discussing novels by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women's magazines, and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover ; Disney movies; popular Harlequin romance novels; masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic stories. Ultimately, Weisser shows that the narrative versions of the Glass Slipper should be taken as seriously as the Glass Ceiling as we see how these representations of romantic love are meant to inform women's beliefs and goals. In this book, Weisser's goal is not to shatter the Glass Slipper, but to see through it.
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813561779
ISBN-13
9780813561776
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166415646
Product Key Features
Book Title
Glass Slipper : Women and Love Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Love & Romance, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, General, Gothic & Romance, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
254 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn3448
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
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The Glass Slipper is a fine addition to gender and popular culture studies. Its sound scholarship and engaging, witty style demonstrate that the more things change, the more they too often stay the same., In this timely, valuable, relevant study, Weisser examines the ways in which traditional ideas of romantic love endure, despite decades of feminist scholarship and critique challenging sexism and misogyny and calling for change. Her prose is accessible, lively, and informed, and her discoveries outlining where feminism and romance dovetail and diverge have far-reaching implications to be valuable to anyone interested in gender studies, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Highly recommended., The Glass Slipper compellingly urges readers and critics to question whether subversion is really possible in the romance narratives consumed en masse by Western culture., Weisser poses the question: What hath English novelist Jane Austen and ABC's reality television series The Bachelor wrought? While the glass ceiling has arguably been broken, the idealized glass slipper romance remains 'embedded in women's identity as a powerful marker of value.' In this nonjudgmental exploration of women's relationship to romance, covering everything from Charlotte Brontë to The Jersey Shore, Weisser's stated goal is not to shatter the glass slipper but rather to see beyond its idealized narrative. For those interested in the impact of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover on the most recent season of The Bachelorette and how both have affected women's views of themselves, both in and out of love., The Glass Slipper is a fine addition to gender and popular culture studies. Its sound scholarship and engaging, witty style demonstrate that the more things change, the more they too often stay the same."" - Elayne Rapping, State University of New York at Buffalo ""With her lively and witty style, Weisser argues in this absorbing and ambitious work that our culture is dominated by fundamentally conservative assumptions about romantic love, marriage, and gender."" - Robyn Warhol, The Ohio State University, In its impressive scope and critical trajectory, The Glass Slipper is likely to be the most useful book on its subject yet., Weisser dissect[s] the myths and persistence of the love story. She finds the story of the glass slipper--the arrival of a man who represents the 'perfect fit'--to be as pernicious as the limitations of the glass ceiling, With her lively and witty style, Weisser argues in this absorbing and ambitious work that our culture is dominated by fundamentally conservative assumptions about romantic love, marriage, and gender., A critical but compassionate exploration of how the romantic stories women tell and consume reflect the anxieties associated with our changing options and constraints. Perceptive and thought-provoking., Weisser poses the question: What hath English novelist Jane Austen and ABC's reality television series The Bachelor wrought? While the glass ceiling has arguably been broken, the idealized glass slipper romance remains 'embedded in women's identity as a powerful marker of value.' In this nonjudgmental exploration of women's relationship to romance, covering everything from Charlotte Bront to The Jersey Shore, Weisser's stated goal is not to shatter the glass slipper but rather to see beyond its idealized narrative. For those interested in the impact of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover on the most recent season of The Bachelorette and how both have affected women's views of themselves, both in and out of love., With her lively and witty style, Weisser argues that our culture is dominated by fundamentally conservative assumptions about romantic love, marriage, and gender in this absorbing and ambitious work., With her lively and witty style, Weisser argues in this absoring and ambitious work that our culture is dominated by fundamentally conservative assumptions about romantic love, marriage, and gender., In its impressive scope and critical trajectory, The Glass Slipper is likely to be the most useful book on its subject yet.
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1. The Odd Couple 2. Why Charlotte Bronte Despised Jane Austen 3. The True and Real Thing 4. Victorian Desires and Modern Romances 5. For the Love of Mermaids, Beasts, and Vampires (and Ghosts, Robots, Monsters, Witches, and Aliens) 6. Women Who Love Too Much . . . or Not Enough . . . or the Wrong Way 7. Feminism and Harlequin Romance 8. A Genre of One's Own 9. Is Female to Romance as Male Is to Porn? 10. Modern Romance Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-051437
Dewey Decimal
809.3/85
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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