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The author studied a group of well-educated, young Indian women of the upper and middle class in South India to show that imported romance novels have helped them to either develop an internationally-based self identity, nationalism, or to escape from cultural morality through literature.

I should start by telling you about the father. -- Buchi Emecheta, Naira Power This essay is an experiment in disarticulating the term romance from the category of Nigerian women's […]

The lesbian romance has been rekindled. The ending that most feminist scholars believe is involved with the plot of romance novels written by women involves several elements. Among these elements are fantasy, loving, maturing, self-identity, and nurturing. The 'lesbian plot' does not exist because the construction of heterosexuality is the norm.

The works of Frances Burney, an 18th-century novelist, show a trend among courtship novels to question the economic supply and demand that underlies courtship decisions, making commerce the dominant influence on society. The novels also reveal a political protest that extends far away from domestic life and the writing of women. The contest between the written law and the overriding law of supply and demand is expressed in Burney's novels.

Imported Mills & Boon romance novels are popular in urban India with young, middle- and upper-class women. A study of young, middle and upper-class women in Hyderabad aimed to examine the reception of imported Mills & Boon romance novels among women in postcolonial urban India. The novels were seen as an extension of Indian women's childhood English-language reading and they saw them as ways of improving English-language skills, and to boost their image as modern and cosmopolitan women.