I Am Not Ashamed of Loving Women’s Romance Novels

<![CDATA[I am not ashamed of loving women’s romance novels. And I am not alone. These books are loved by tens of millions of readers — mostly quietly, often quietly guilty. Our culture has trained people to sneer at things women enjoy, especially when those things are pleasurable: fashion, fiction, good food, beauty pursued for its own sake. These pleasures are treated as frivolous at best and suspect at worst. ]]>