@article{694757,
      author = {Weisser, Susan Ostrov.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694757},
      title = {The glass slipper : women and love stories /},
      abstract = {"The Glass Slipper is about the persistence of a familiar  Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing  influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan  Ostrov Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these  stories are shaped and defined by and for women, the main  consumers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that  begins with Jane Austen and concludes with Internet dating  sites, Weisser shows the many ways in which  nineteenth-century views of women's nature and the  Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist  critique of the 1970s and continue in new and more  ambiguous forms in today's media, with profound  implications for women. More than a book about romance in  fiction and media, The Glass Slipper illustrates how  traditional stories about women's sexuality, femininity,  and romantic love have survived as seemingly protective  elements in a more modern, feminist, sexually open society,  confusing the picture for women themselves. Weisser  compares diverse narratives--historical and contemporary  from high literature and "low" genres--discussing novels by  Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women's  magazines, and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover;  Disney movies; popular Harlequin romance novels;  masochistic love in films; pornography and its relationship  to romance; and reality TV and Internet ads as romantic  stories. Ultimately, Weisser shows that the narrative  versions of the Glass Slipper should be taken as seriously  as the Glass Ceiling as we see how these representations of  romantic love are meant to inform women's beliefs and  goals. In this book, Weisser's goal is not to shatter the  Glass Slipper, but to see through it."--Publisher's  website.},
      recid = {694757},
      pages = {1 online resource (253 pages)},
}