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What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us as much about the history of women as about masculine icons.

When girls were supposed to be shrinking violets, passionate females risked being seen as "unbridled," or dangerously out of control. Change came slowly, and young women remained trapped in double-binds. You may have needed a husband in order to survive, but you had to avoid looking like a gold-digger. Sexual desire could be dangerous: a rash guide to making choices. Show attraction too openly and you might be judged "fast" and undesirable.

Education and wage-earning brought independence and a widening of cultural horizons. Young women in the early twentieth century showed a sustained appetite for novel-reading, cinema-going, and the dancehall. They sighed over Rudolph Valentino's screen performances, as tango-dancer, Arab tribesman, or desert lover. Contemporary critics were sniffy about "shop-girl" taste in literature and in men, but as consumers, girls had new clout.

In Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carole Dyhouse draws upon literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and "fandom," she takes us deep into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of feminist literature has shown women as objects of the "male gaze": this book looks at men through the eyes of women.

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Carol Dyhouse is Professor (Emeritus) of History at the University of Sussex. She has written extensively about the social history of women, gender, and education. Her recent publications include Glamour: Women, History, Feminism (2011) and Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (2013). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2004 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt from the University of Winchester in recognition of her work on history and education.

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"Carol Dyhouse considers the shifting fantasies of desirable masculinity that western women have consumed - and produced - over the last 150 years... the book ranges fluently across literature, film, music, and television. Heartthrobs is erudite, accessible, funny, and invaluable - a genuinely insightful, and enjoyable, work of cultural history." - Rachel Moseley, Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick


"Carol Dyhouse writes about women's desire with her customary brio, delicious humor, and eclectic cultural references. She takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of fiction, film, song, and digital media, tracing the development of women's objects of desire from Byron to Rudolph Valentino and Justin Bieber... How many other writers would bring together in one slim volume Artie Shaw, Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Violet Winspear, and David Cassidy?" - Helen Taylor, Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter


"What do women want, asked Freud? The answer he probably wasn't expecting was "Mr Rochester with a dash of Rudolph Valentino". In this irresistible study of female desire, Carol Dyhouse asks tough, scholarly questions about what - or rather who - makes female hearts beat faster." - Kathryn Hughes, Professor of Life Writing, University of East Anglia


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  • PublisherOxford University Press
  • Publication date2017
  • ISBN 10 0198765835
  • ISBN 13 9780198765837
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  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages280
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