The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories

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index adultery, 23, 29, 47, 56, 72–77, 121–125 Andersen, Hans Christian. See “The Little Mermaid” Angel figure, 40, 42, 44–45, 62, 67, 86, 96, 105–106, 108–116, 128–129, 209 Armstrong, Nancy, 135 Austen, Jane, 13, 15, 17–34, 35–39, 48, 55–56, 101, 135, 187–188, 209, 211; Emma, 24, 29; Sense and Sensibility, 27, 29, 38; Pride and Prejudice, 20, 25–27, 37, 91, 100, 140, 195 (film of, 36, 38, 49); Mansfield Park, 139; Persuasion, 22–34, 38, 55 Bachelor, The (television program), 1, 7–8, 15, 180, 184–193, 202, 204–205; sexuality on, 187–189. See also reality TV Barbach, Lonnie, 178 Barthes, Roland, 81, 110, 182 Beaumont, Mme. de, 89–91, 98, 104 Beauty and the Beast, 39, 81–84, 98, 126, 103–104; De Beaumont story, 89–91, 98, 104; Disney movie, 84, 89–94, 104 Beauvoir, Simone de, xi, 84, 109, 123 black romance fiction, 146–170; appearance in, 163–165, 169; black historical romance, 151; black identity in, 161–162, 166, 223n59; black “sistah” novels, 151–152; characteristics of, compared to white romances, 155–170; class and wealth in, 163, 166; feminism in, 162; marriage in, 146–149, 165–168; race in, 155–162, 166, 169; segregation in, 155, 165–166,169 Bridges of Madison County (Waller), 70–75, 77–78 Bridget Jones’s Diary (Fielding), 152 Brontë, Charlotte, 15, 35–49, 209, 211; Jane Eyre, 11, 24, 36–49, 71, 82, 91–92, 99–100, 104; Villette, 46 Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 26, 42, 49, 71, 82, 141, 198, 211 Brontë sisters, 13–15, 20, 36, 38, 43 Bruner, Jerome, 145, 206 Burney, Fanny, 46, 139 Byron,Lord,38,81,210;Byronichero,39,98,100 capitalism, 20,135, 196, 210 chick lit, 2, 136, 152, 167; Bridget Jones’s Diary, 152 Christian values, 8, 56–57, 62, 71, 90, 94, 97–98, 105, 115, 175; in Charlotte Brontë, 42–49; Christian Harlequin imprints, 136, 140, 146, 165, 167 Cinderella, 1–2, 24, 39, 42, 80–1, 84, 98, 187, 206; (Disney movie), 83–84, 91–104, 98, 104 Cinderella Complex, The (Dowling), 2 class, 3–4, 11–13, 35–36, 91, 108, 135, 180, 203; in Austen and Lawrence, 22–32; in The Bachelor , 186, 192; in black romances, 147–150, 155, 163, 166–168; in Jane Eyre, 41, 45–46; in Victorian and modern magazines, 52, 55–56 Cohn, Jan, 11 Collins, Patricia Hill, 168–169 Cott, Nancy, 168 courtly love, 69, 101, 103 courtship, xi, 40, 207, 221n7; in Austen, 19–21, 22, 29, 37; in The Bachelor, 185–186; in Charlotte Brontë, 40, 42–43, 48; courtship plot, 135, 204; in Disney movies, 84, 93; in modern magazines, 68; in Victorian magazines , 51–61 Coward, Rosalind, 132 cynicism about romance, xii, 2–4, 115, 124, 143, 179, 190, 213n3 Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women (ed. Krentz), 133–134, 144 Dante, 43 dating, 185–186, 225n6; Internet dating, 15, 183, 188, 193–205, 207, 226nn14,15; Internet dating profiles, 194–199; and older women, 199–201, 204 destiny. See love as destiny Disney movies: Beauty and the Beast, 83–84, 89–94; Cinderella, 83–84, 91–104; The Little Mermaid, 83–89, 93, 98, 104, 106, 216n1; Disney movies (continued) Pocahontas, 70, 75–78, 81, 216n1; Snow White, 83–84 divorce, 1, 48, 109, 136, 147–148, 203 Douglas, Ann, 132, 227n7 Dowd, James J., 108–109, 227n5 Dowling, Colette, The Cinderella Complex, 2 Dracula (Stoker), 94–98, 102, 104 DuCille, Ann, 151, 154, 166 duty, 9, 26, 31, 55, 71–72, 91, 105, 209. See also Victorian values Eliot, George, 72, 91–92, 131, 211 Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 71, 106 empowerment for women, 10, 69, 112, 122, 125, 136–137, 160, 177, 220n18. See also love and equality erotica, 174–177; Fifty Shades of Grey, 139, 176; Herotica series, 176–177; Nin and, 174; Steinem, on, 174 fairy tales. See specific titles feminism: and The Bachelor, 186–187; and The Bachelorette, 190–192, 216n1; in black romance fiction, 149, 167–168; Charlotte Brontë and, 40–41, 45–48; in Harlequin novels, 130–145 passim, 149; and love, xii, 1–4, 14–15, 50, 207–209; in magazines, 50, 65–68; in movies, 106–187, 112, 121–123, 128– 129, 216n1; popular romance and, 70–77; and pornography, 172–180. See also postfeminism feminist revolution, 14–15, 138, 136, 180, 210. See also Second Wave feminism; Third Wave feminism Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones...