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From bodice rippers to romantasy, romance novels are dominating the book market – and rewriting women’s sexual power

  • Written by Diane Winston, Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
From bodice rippers to romantasy, romance novels are dominating the book market – and rewriting women’s sexual powerThe Bible may be the bestselling book of all time, but annual sales of romance novels now outpace the Scriptures.drante/iStock via Getty Images

The compulsion started soon after my marriage.

Long before e-books and audiobooks, I furtively read paperbacks whose covers of bosomy maidens and bare-chested men would have outed my obsession. Then, on a...

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