Download e-book for kindle: The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories by Susan Ostrov Weisser

Why is the tale of romance in books, magazines, and flicks nonetheless aimed toward girls instead of at males? Even after many years of feminism, conventional principles and messages approximately romantic love nonetheless carry sway and, in our “postfeminist” age, are extra renowned than ever. more and more, we've got develop into a tradition of romance: tales of all types form the phrases of affection. girls, specifically, love a love story.

The Glass Slipper is set the endurance of a well-known Anglo-American love tale into the electronic age. evaluating influential classics to their present opposite numbers, Susan Ostrov Weisser relates in hugely fun prose how those tales are formed and outlined through and for girls, the most shoppers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that starts with Jane Austen and concludes with web courting websites, Weisser indicates the various ways that nineteenth-century perspectives of women’s nature and the Victorian concept of romance have survived the feminist critique of the Nineteen Seventies and proceed in new and extra ambiguous kinds in today’s media, with profound implications for women.

More than a e-book approximately romance in fiction and media, The Glass Slipper illustrates how conventional tales approximately women’s sexuality, femininity, and romantic love have survived as possible protecting parts in a extra sleek, feminist, sexually open society, complicated the image for girls themselves. Weisser compares various narratives—historical and modern from excessive literature and “low” genres—discussing novels by way of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women’s magazines, and D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Disney video clips; renowned Harlequin romance novels; masochistic love in movies; pornography and its courting to romance; and truth television and web advertisements as romantic tales.

Ultimately, Weisser indicates that the narrative models of the Glass Slipper can be taken as heavily because the Glass Ceiling as we see how those representations of romantic love are supposed to tell women’s ideals and targets. during this publication, Weisser’s target isn't to shatter the Glass Slipper, yet to determine via it.