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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
dc:descriptionIn 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
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Dudovitz, Resa Lynn
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8711790
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71475