tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post1627620310922890680..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Sisters and HusbandsE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-19582130754882866582011-12-31T15:04:16.884+00:002011-12-31T15:04:16.884+00:00Struve's article prompted Sarah to post a tren...Struve's article prompted Sarah to post a trenchant response dealing with the issue of "outdated research". It can be found <a href="http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2011/12/different-take.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. She raises questions about the implications for humanities scholarship.<br /><br />Struve was obviously trying to counter some of the "second hand assumptions" about romance readers, but she did so in a way which left me unclear which assumptions she herself was making, and her observation that female romance readers talk to one another isn't exactly new because, as Sarah points out in her post, Janice Radway had already written about that in 1984 (in <i>Reading the Romance</i>), albeit the community Radway describes was based around a bookshop rather than online.<br /><br />Curiously, Struve quotes Radway's “Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor.” <i>Book Research Quarterly</i> 2.3 (1986): 7–29 but not Radway's <i>Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature</i>.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-27988657093627440522011-12-31T14:42:24.101+00:002011-12-31T14:42:24.101+00:00So another "essay" based on outdated res...So another "essay" based on outdated research and second hand assumptions? Shoddy scholarship?lynneconnollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10687025766573756077noreply@blogger.com