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Romancing the Novel
Bodice Rippers: Anti-woman, feminist lit, or both
The classic romance novel typically features a damsel in distress, heart-throbbing anticipation, an excessively masculine man, and lots of passionate sex. Are these dramatic elements the only reason romance novels are so popular? The genre's appeal is partially due to the easy-to-read paperbacks that allow us to escape our daily lives, but is there something else?…
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On the Edge
"You make me feel like a lady"
All I have to say to Rick Becker, author of Empowering College Women: Stategies for Campus?Relationships, is "thank you." Thank you, Mr. Becker, for telling me how I have gone so wrong in my quest for romance. In his landmark book,?Becker outlines the way a lady (because you are a lady) should act to attract a man.…
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A familiar voice makes "A Phone Call to the Future"
Mary Jo Salter reads from a new book of poems
I knew whose class I wanted to visit during Experience MHC-Mary Jo Salter's, the author of one of my favorite essays on Helen Keller. I was shy when I got there and sat quietly next to my soon-to-be peers as they talked about the meanings of poems I had never read.…
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