title: Women and Romance: A Reader
author:  Susan Ostrov Weisser 
description: "Does romance weaken or empower women? Is it a debilitating illusion, a form of false consciousness, or the understandable expression of a universal human need?" asks Susan Ostrov Weisser (A "Craving Vacancy": Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880), editor of Women and Romance: A Reader. Mary Wollstonecraft, Emma Goldman, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emily Dickinson, Simone de Beauvoir, Rita Mae Brown, Audre Lorde, Lillian Faderman, bell hooks and Mary Gaitskill are just a few of the eminent thinkers Weisser recruits here. "The Reconstruction of Teen Romance" (Sharon Thompson), "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (George Eliot) and "Women's Masochism and Ideal Love" (Jessica Benjamin) are among the topics addressed in this thoughtfully assembled and far-reaching anthology.
zlib_text: PRAISE FOR SUSAN STOKER
  “Susan Stoker knows what women want. A hot hero who needs to save a damsel in distress . . . even
  if she can save herself!”
  —CD Reiss, New York Times bestselling author
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  —Elle James, New York Times bestselling author
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  —Carly Phillips, New York Times bestselling author
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  —Laurann Dohner, New York Times bestselling author
  “These books should come with a warning label. Once you start, you can’t stop until you’ve read
  them all.”
  —Sharon Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author
  “Susan Stoker never disappoints. She delivers alpha males with heart and heroines with moxie.”
  —Jana Aston, New York Times bestselling author
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