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Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society by Eva Illouz
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- Book Title
- Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Societ
- Publication Date
- 2014-05-22
- Pages
- 104
- ISBN
- 9780226153698
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Hard-Core Romance : &Quot;Fifty Shades of Grey,&Quot; Best-Sellers, and Society
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 104 Pages
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The Fifty Shades trilogy of erotic romance novels has been a publishing sensation, with over seventy million copies sold worldwide since the first volume appeared in 2011. Clearly, Fifty Shades is a cultural phenomenon worth serious scrutiny, and sociologist Eva Illouz provides it in this short, engaging book. Illouz first places the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, then delves into the nature of its appeal. She argues that the Fifty Shades trilogy is neither "mommy porn" nor anti-feminist hackwork. Rather, she shows that it affords intense reading pleasure to many women readers because it resonates with the sociological structure of men's and women's relationships today. Fifty Shades , she argues, is a gothic romance adapted to modern times in which sexuality is a source both of division between men and women and a site to orchestrate their reconciliation. But Illouz also wants to show that BDSM is as much a cultural as a sexual fantasy, for it functions here as a self-help category, a guide to a happier romantic life. In other words, Fifty Shades is genre fiction that weaves together a commentary on the deprived condition of love and sexuality, a romantic fantasy, and self-help instructions on how to improve the reader's life.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022615369x
ISBN-13
9780226153698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309305293
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Hard-Core Romance : &Quot;Fifty Shades of Grey,&Quot; Best-Sellers, and Society
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
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Pr6110.A4555.I45
Reviews
A fantastic feminist reading of Fifty Shades of Grey offering publishing scholars and practitioners a profoundly troubling diagnosis for what truly makes a contemporary bestseller. Highly recommended., A provocative text in its own right, Hard-Core Romance inventively employs the much-maligned Fifty Shades of a Grey to stage a philosophical and sociological conversation about relationship between fantasy, romance, sexuality, and popular literature. In a modern era where competing desires for autonomy and attachment in sexual relationships are lived realities but seldom theorized, Illouz bravely takes on the novel's controversial sexual practices, finding in them a meditation on the anxieties and compromises that characterize heterosexual intimacy. This generous and original reading offers the tantalizing prospect that it will unveil the uncertainties and indeterminacies that inhere in the heterosexual compact-a promise that Hard-Core Romance masterfully delivers., A provocative text in its own right, Hard-Core Romance inventively employs the much-maligned Fifty Shades of a Grey to stage a philosophical and sociological conversation about relationship between fantasy, romance, sexuality, and popular literature. In a modern era where competing desires for autonomy and attachment in sexual relationships are lived realities but seldom theorized, Illouz bravely takes on the novel's controversial sexual practices, finding in them a meditation on the anxieties and compromises that characterize heterosexual intimacy. This generous and original reading offers the tantalizing prospect that it will unveil the uncertainties and indeterminacies that inhere in the heterosexual compact--a promise that Hard-Core Romance masterfully delivers., Hard-Core Romance is a wonderfully creative piece of cultural analysis. Writing from a feminist-sociological perspective, Eva Illouz tells us how Fifty Shades of Grey became an international bestseller by providing fantasy resolutions to real-life female dilemmas, and self-help for the douleurs of contemporary heterosexuality. A most timely intervention., A reasoned, thoughtful examination of gender relations, women's desires, and the role of passion in contemporary society. . . . Vital and interesting.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments 1 Best-Sellers and Our Social Unconscious 2 How to Find Emotional Certainty in a World of Sexual Uncertainty Epilogue: Sado-Masochism as a Romantic Utopia Coda: BDSM and Immanence Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Erotica / General, Media Studies, Sociology / General, General, Books & Reading
Lccn
2013-046331
Dewey Decimal
808.8/03538
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Fiction
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