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Review: The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including my Own), by Kate Monro

Monro, Kate. The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including my Own). London: Icon Books, 2011. 220 pp. £11.99.

Review: Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film

Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film, edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. 978-0-8143-3318-1

Review: Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marrying

Regnerus, Mark, and Jeremy Uecker. Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marrying. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. $24.95.

Review: Chick Lit and Postfeminism, by Stephanie Harzewski

Harzewski, Stephanie. Chick Lit and Postfeminism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 264 pages. Cloth 978-0-8139-3071-8; $55.00 Paper 978-0-8139-3072-5, $19.50

Review: Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre

Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, eds. Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2008. viii + 272 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-4195-2.

Review: Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel, by Amy S. Pattee

Pattee, Amy S. Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel. New York and London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2011. £85.00; £80.00 (eBook); $125.00; $88.00 (eBook).

Review: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century, by Cristina Nehring

Nehring, Cristina. A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2009. $24.99; $13.99 (paper)

Review: Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity, by Lisa Fletcher

Fletcher, Lisa. Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 186 pages. $99.95 print; $89.96 online.

Review: Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance, by Northrop Frye

Frye, Northrop. Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance. Ed. Michael Dolzani. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. Vol. 15 of Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Alvin A. Lee, gen. ed. 27 vols to date. 1996 - . 560 pp. $106.00

Review: Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories, by Diana Holmes

Holmes, Diana. Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. 161 pp. $99.00

Review: Reading Nora Roberts, by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Reading Nora Roberts. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 2010. 155 pp. $35.00

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