'What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions', Journal of Bisexuality, Published online first. Abstract:
"Criticism [...]
often argues that such narratives merely substitute two male bodies for a
male/female pair without substantively altering the emotional and
sexual dynamics of the relationship. Hence, the male lovers in such
narratives are simply acting out a heterosexual fantasy of gay male
intimacy. To challenge this view, this essay turns to revisions to
Freudian understandings of bisexuality. In so doing, it attempts to
relocate this pleasure in the repudiated male identities and homosexual
object cathexes that all women are urged to give up in the pre-Oedipal
phase as a condition of assuming (hetero)normative gender and sexual
subjectivities."
Moody, Stephanie, 2016.
“Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels.” Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives. Eds. Patrick Thomas and Pamela Takayoshi. New York: Routledge. 32-45.
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