Heartthrobs : a history of women and desire / Carol Dyhouse.

  • Dyhouse, Carol, 1948-
Date:
2017
  • Books

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Description

In Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carole Dyhouse draws upon literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and 'fandom', she takes us deep into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of feminist literature has shown women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes of women.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Physical description

xv, 262 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-251) and index.

Contents

Epigraphs -- Introduction -- Her heart's desire : What did women want? -- Unbridled passions -- Packaging the male -- Once upon a dream : Prince Charming, cavaliers, Regency beaux -- Dark princes, foreign powers : desert lovers, outsiders, and vampires -- Soulmates : intimacy, integrity, trust -- Power : protection, transformative magic, and patriarchy -- Sighing for the moon?

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ISBN

  • 9780198765837