Dangerous Books For Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels, Explained

by Maya Rodale

Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives and hopeless spinsters. But why were these books-the escape and entertainment of choice for millions of women-singled out for scorn and shame?

Dangerous Books for Girls examines the secret history of the genre's bad reputation-from the "damned mob of scribbling women" in the nineteenth century to the sexy mass-market...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990635627
• ISBN13: 9780990635628
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Maya Rodale
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"