Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return.

'We read books so we won't cry' is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention 'must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading.' She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture.

yago:WikicatMichiganStateUniversityAlumni.dbr:State_University_of_New_York,_Stony_Brook.Janice Radway (Englewood, 1949) é uma pesquisadora de estudos literários e culturais norte americana.Elle est notamment l'auteur d'une étude sur la lecture de romances aux États-Unis. Janice Radway, née le 29 janvier 1949, est une universitaire et critique littéraire américaine.Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.

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