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Woman Inherits the Earth: Dinosaur Feminism and Virgin Births
Their children will surely be dangerous. Men don’t want them having children. So men create expensive, inefficient, and cruel systems to control the potential for reproduction. This is the secret...
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Hurt/Comfort: Two Shapeshifting Books Reviewed
Lately, and quite accidentally, I read three books in a row that involved shapeshifting or similar transformations. I’m going to talk about two of them. RoAnn Sylver’s Chameleon Moon (kindly loaned to...
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All The Iron Filings Line Up Nice and Neat
1. Magnetism seems magical not least because it is invisible. It acts semi-secretly in plain sight, whether it’s holding one photo suspended on a refrigerator door or protecting all of Earth from the...
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Space, Science, and the Gender of Perfection
{Courting Critique is a post series that takes an analytic and intersectional feminist look at romance texts — not so much to prove that romance is feminist or anti-feminist, but because good criticism...
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The Billionaire Bait-and-Switch: For the Love of Lit Crit
{This is less review and more analysis. It goes without saying that there are spoilers all up in here, so be warned.} I had no business reading this book. My only defense is that the blurb said the...
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Jane Austen’s Small-Town Caribbean: For the Love of Lit Crit
Jane Austen only ever wrote one duke. He doesn’t even appear on the page. He warrants a brief secondhand mention during the amateur theatricals of Mansfield Park, and POOF, farewell to his grace. There...
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High Stakes Visibility
Two things in particular happened this week. 1. Authors of color shared their experiences at the national RWA conference in New York. Suleikha Snyder’s ‘A Tale of Two Conferences’ and Rebekah...
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That Pesky Empathy Thing
{Content note: the following post talks about forced seduction and sexual assault in romance and in real life. Nothing graphic, but the subject is pervasive. It’s also heteronormative as fuck, since...
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Die Hard, Jupiter Jones, Cinderella, and Character Agency
When I’m talking narrative and I want someone’s eyes to light up, I just tell them this: Die Hard is one of my favorite Cinderella stories. I cannot take credit for making the connection myself. It was...
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Even More Romance Novels For the Modern Woman, Whoever She May Be
{Disclaimer: I have not read nearly all of the books I list here, but the author of the original post hasn’t either, so what the hell, let’s do this.} Short version: someone who’s never read a romance...
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Batman and Bootleggers: For the Love of Lit Crit
{For the Love of Lit Crit is a post series that takes a feminist look at romance texts — not so much to prove that romance is feminist or anti-feminist, but because sometimes analysis can be as fun and...
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Filthy Lucre: For the Love of Lit Crit
{Disclaimer: a copy of this book was provided me by the author for review. Ms. Cullars reached out after I discussed an earlier work of hers in my Feminism A-Z series on intersectionality in romance....
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Invisible Labor in the Publishing World
I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent Dear Author post on books as commercial objects and now I’m going to try something ambitious. I’m going to talk about Amazon and Hachette and Authors United....
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Better, Less Offensive History
At present I am in a library, staring out a bank of windows at a grassy field. Huge pieces of public art are scattered across the space: a driftwood horse, a strange lemon-fish-bowl assembly, and...
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Ecology and Uses of the Alpha Male in Romance
In the comments to Michelle Sagara’s thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on alpha males at Dear Author, commenter Charming points to the term’s source in animal behavior studies (most notably from...
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Viscounts and Vorkosigans: For the Love of Lit Crit
Welcome to the inaugural post in my new once-monthly series, For the Love of Lit Crit, where we treat romance novels like the deliberately composed texts they are. Posts will be tagged as such and...
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Gendered Violence, Annotated
Content note: the following post discusses rape, domestic violence, and sexual/reproductive coercion. The instances are numerous, but not graphic. All I wanted to do was get some pointers on revising a...
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A to Z Wrap-Up
1. I did it! I did it! *collapses into wild laughter and sobs* Thank you to everyone who commented, replied, and retweeted — the best part of this series was hearing other people’s thoughts, whether or...
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Z is for Zoe Archer
{Content note: the following post contains brief mentions of rape and nonconsensual attitudes in romance. Click here for the complete — actually complete! — alphabet of intersectional feminism in...
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Y is for Y Chromosomes: Gender Binary (Part 2)
{Click here for the full alphabet of intersectional feminism in romance.} Yesterday I talked about the gender binary in mainstream romance; today’s post is all about m/m and f/f romance. I’m a mere...
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