The story of female desire and fantasy, told through the cultural history of the heartthrob, from Byron to boy-bands.
Feminists have commonly represented women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes of women.
Introduction; 1 Her Heart's Desire: What Did Women Want?
; 2 Unbridled Passions; 3 Packaging the Male; 4 Once upon a dream: Prince Charming, Cavaliers, Regency Beaux; 5 Dark Princes, Foreign Powers: Desert Lovers, Outsiders, and Vampires; 6 Soulmates: Intimacy, Integrity, Trust; 7 Power: Protection, Transformative Magic, and Patriarchy; 8 Sighing for the Moon?
; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index
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