TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zibrak,Arielle
TI  - Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
SN  - 9781479807079
AV  - PN56.5.W64 Z53 2021
U1  - 809/.93352042 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Popular literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Romance films
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Women
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Critical Race Studies
KW  - Cultural Criticism
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Film Studies
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Love
KW  - Memoir
KW  - Pandemic
KW  - Periodical Studies
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Popular Women Writers
KW  - Print Culture
KW  - Queer Theory
KW  - Race Studies
KW  - Romance Novels
KW  - Sentimental Fiction
KW  - Sexuality Studies
KW  - Shame
KW  - Television Studies
KW  - White Privilege
KW  - Women's Culture
KW  - Women's Fiction
N1  - restricted access
N2  - "My guilty pleasure wasn't just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself."What is it about ribald romance novels, luxurious interior design, and frothy wedding dresses that often make women feel their desires come with a shadow of shame? In Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, Arielle Zibrak considers the specifically pleasurable forms of feminine guilt and desire stimulated by supposedly "lowbrow" aesthetic tendencies. She takes up the overwhelming preoccupation with the experience of being humiliated, dominated, or even abused that has pervaded the stories that make up women's culture-from eighteenth-century epistolary novels to popular twentieth-century teen magazine features to present-day romantic comedies.In three chapters-"Rough Sex," "Expensive Sheets," and "Saying Yes to the Dress"-that mirror the plot structures of feminine fictions themselves, this book tells the story of the desires that only the guiltiest of pleasures evoke. Zibrak reexamines documents of femme culture long dismissed as "trash" to reveal the surprisingly cathartic experiences produced by tales of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of the heteropatriarchy.Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at American culture. With the singular blend of personal memoir and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims women's experiences for themselves
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479807123
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479807123/original
ER  -