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Thursday, 5 July 2018
Barnard's Inn Hall

Do Romance Novels Reinforce Gender Stereotypes?

Catherine M. Roach
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Prof. Catherine Roach considers how contemporary literature is presenting new norms on romance

Watch the full lecture here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/happily-ever-after-the-romance-story

Catherine M. Roach
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Catherine is Professor of Gender and Culture Studies in New College at the University of Alabama and spent 2013-14 in residence at the University of Leeds as Fulbright Distinguished Chair.  

She is author of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture. Her most recent book is Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, which won a Silver Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She publishes romance fiction as Catherine LaRoche.

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Thursday, 5 July 2018
Barnard's Inn Hall
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