Love, Inc. Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter
Published:
12 February 2019
Online ISBN:
9780520967922
Print ISBN:
9780520295018
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First Love First Love
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Romance, Childhood, and the Perverse Victorian Imagination Romance, Childhood, and the Perverse Victorian Imagination
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Romance as Modern Ideology Romance as Modern Ideology
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Disney Taught me to Love Disney Taught me to Love
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Tween Romance Tween Romance
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Edward and Bella TLA Edward and Bella TLA
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Someday my Prince will Come Someday my Prince will Come
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Twilight Grows Up Twilight Grows Up
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Can’t Buy me Love Can’t Buy me Love
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The Most Romantic Valentine’s Day Ever The Most Romantic Valentine’s Day Ever
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A Fork in the Road: Economic Reality or Romantic Fantasy? A Fork in the Road: Economic Reality or Romantic Fantasy?
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Cite
Essig, Laurie, 'Learning to Love', Love, Inc. Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter (Oakland, CA , 2019; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 23 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295018.003.0002, accessed 13 July 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter considers how we learn to love at an early age from a variety of cultural productions, such as Disney films and teen romance novels. It digs deep into the culture of Twilight and its more grown-up—if illegitimate—progeny, Fifty Shades of Grey, to argue that romance is primarily an economic fantasy, although one that relies on both white supremacy and patriarchal gender roles to make sense.
Subject
Gender and Sexuality
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California Scholarship Online
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