![]() As feminists were fighting patriarchy, romance novels were propping it up. ![]() The rapist-turned-true-love hero was a standard character.īodice-rippers and their contemporary counterparts were popular during the 1970s, occupying the same cultural space as the feminist movement but seeming to represent its polar opposite. "Bodice-rippers," the most famous term associated with the romance genre are, according to the book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: ""typically set in the past, and the hero is a great deal older, more brutal, and more rapetastic than the heroine." The heroines were young, virginal women whose purity was of paramount importance to their worth. In A Lady Awakened, the heroine uses the hero for sex (Bantam)
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