@article{1398917,
      recid = {1398917},
      author = {Leavy, Patricia,},
      title = {Low-fat love [electronic resource] /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 200 pages).},
      abstract = {Low-Fat Love unfolds over three seasons as Prilly Greene  and Janice Goldwyn, adversarial editors at a New York  press, experience personal change relating to the men (and  absence of women) in their lives. Ultimately, each woman is  pushed to confront her own image of herself, exploring her  insecurities, the stagnation in her life and her reasons  for having settled for low-fat love. Along with Prilly and  Janice, a cast of offbeat charactersâ stories are  interwoven throughout the book. Low-Fat Love is underscored  with a commentary about female identity-building and  self-acceptance and how, too often, women become trapped in  limited visions of themselves. Womenâs media is used as a  signpost throughout the book in order to make visible the  context in which women come to think of themselves as well  as the men and women in their lives. In this respect  Low-Fat Love offers a critical commentary about popular  culture and the social construction of femininity. Grounded  in a decade of interview research with young women and  written in a fun, chick-lit voice, the novel can be read  for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety  of social science or womenâs/gender studies courses as well  as courses in popular culture, qualitative research or  arts-based research.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398917},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-992-0},
}