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Using fiction for transformation
Author(s) -
Jarvis Christine
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.209
Subject(s) - romance , transformation (genetics) , perception , sociology , consciousness raising , psychology , gender studies , pedagogy , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , art , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene
Abstract This chapter examines how the study of popular romantic fiction was used to transform students' understandings of the ways in which gendered identities are constructed and their perception of the way textual meanings are determined.