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Dyhouse, Carol

Heartthrobs :A History of women and desire - Oxford OUP 2017 - xv, 262 pages : black and white illustrations ;

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.

ISBN: 9780198765837

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women
Sexual attraction.
Sex (Psychology)
Women
Sexual Behavior.
Coitus
Women
Sexuality
HISTORY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
HISTORY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Sexual attraction.
Sex (Psychology)
Women.
Women

Dewey Class. No.: 306.7082 / DYH/H