Romance and society
Jun. 16th, 2010 03:41 pmSomething I really wish existed, but I am SO not up for creating/moderating is a comm for discussing romance novels from a social justice perspective.
Basically I want somewhere I can ask "Which Loretta Chase books that I haven't read aren't TOO horribly racist?" and "Are there any regency romances where the hero isn't of noble birth? Are regency romances doomed to a certain amount of classism?" and stuff like that. There's Smart Bitches Trashy Books (Which I was not subscribed to until now, for no good reason, but have made a feed for:
smartbitches_feed) but that's a blog and I don't like commenting on blogs so I'm stuck being a passive consumer.
I poked about for existing comms and there's a bunch about romance novels, but for example note the first response to this post on the romancenovels lj-comm asking about historicals with interesting class issues. What's the bet the Pasha's secret is that he's white? :/ (EDIT: I checked the Amazon page, and sure enough he is)
EDIT: Oh hey, I meant to post this to
sqbr, oops. Meh, it can stay here, it's not like it's a Deep Analytical Post or anything. But no imbroglio-ing in the comments!
EDIT 2: Posted to create_my_comm, thanks for the suggestion
torachan!
Basically I want somewhere I can ask "Which Loretta Chase books that I haven't read aren't TOO horribly racist?" and "Are there any regency romances where the hero isn't of noble birth? Are regency romances doomed to a certain amount of classism?" and stuff like that. There's Smart Bitches Trashy Books (Which I was not subscribed to until now, for no good reason, but have made a feed for:
I poked about for existing comms and there's a bunch about romance novels, but for example note the first response to this post on the romancenovels lj-comm asking about historicals with interesting class issues. What's the bet the Pasha's secret is that he's white? :/ (EDIT: I checked the Amazon page, and sure enough he is)
EDIT: Oh hey, I meant to post this to
EDIT 2: Posted to create_my_comm, thanks for the suggestion
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Date: 2010-06-16 08:25 am (UTC)You should post to
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Date: 2010-06-17 08:49 am (UTC)