Romantasy, BookTok & Critical Thinking

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Romantasy can be fluff. Fluff can still be political. And criticism doesn’t have to mean contempt.

?? General Disclaimer: This video only covers a narrow part of this topic and not an exhaustive look into the topic. Anything left out was either cut for brevity/subject matter or simply did not come up in my research. I encourage anyone to fill in any gaps I may have missed with their own content or in the comments. ??

Timestaps

00:00 The Past is Present
02:24 Intro
03:36 "Girl Power"
13:41 Romantasy
19:03 Women & Fantasy
31:21 Girl Power???
40:18 Wrap it Up
47:31 Credits

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Sources:

?Riot Grrrl: The '90s Movement that Redefined Punk | https://nebula.tv/videos/polyphonic-riot-grrrl-the-90s-movement-that-redefined-punk

?“Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution” by Sara Marcus

?"Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves" by Sophie Gilbert

?"Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature" by Janice A. Radway

?"Margaret Thatcher: The Glass-Ceiling Shatterer Who Thought Feminism Was ‘Poison’" https://msmagazine.com/2013/04/09/margaret-thatcher-the-glass-ceiling-shatterer-who-thought-feminism-was-poison/

?"Disability Benefits and the Marriage Penalty" https://mdaquest.org/disability-benefits-and-the-marriage-penalty/

?"Paranormal Romance: Secretsof the Female Fantastic" by Lee Tobin-McClain| https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308461

?"Woman Puts Down Other Women Who Read Romantasy Books, Has To Crawl Back To Where She Came From"| https://www.boredpanda.com/book-author-calls-women-reading-romantasy-books-dumb/

?"“SNEERS AND LEERS: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma” by JENNIFER LOIS, JOANNA GREGSON | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669991

?”Teaching Fantasy: Overcoming the Stigma of Fluff” by Melissa Thomas | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3650426

?"Women Write Romance, Men Write Manly Things" | https://www.tfrohock.com/blog/2016/3/15/women-write-romance

?"There’s a Weird, Sexist Problem in Fantasy That We Need to Talk About" by Mya Nunnally | https://bookriot.com/sexist-problem-in-fantasy/

?"BIGGEST CHALLENGES FACED BY FEMALE INDIE-FANTASY AUTHORS: GUEST POST" by Fantasy Hive| https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2021/07/biggest-challenges-faced-by-female-indie-fantasy-authors-guest-post/

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