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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Myth of Superwoman: A Comparative Study of Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

Abstract

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In the last ten or fifteen years, women's bestselling fiction has assumed important financial and ideological dimensions in the publishing centers of major industrialized countries. Linked to the bestseller system, contemporary women's fiction in France and the United States provides women with escapist entertainment at the same time it serves as a benign means of expressing dissatisfaction with dominant social structures.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Comparative and World Literature
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Dudovitz, Resa Lynn

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI8711790
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71475

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Dudovitz, Resa Lynn. The Myth of Superwoman: A Comparative Study of Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/71475