The female and the male worlds consist of overlapping as well as separate sections. As most of these sections are entwined they in many ways mirror each other: What's considered a good and, more or less, acceptable behavior for men in the "male section" is most often seen as the opposite for women in the "same male section": "Men are men, and women are women" which means each to his/her socially defined gender role. For instance, we still harbor loads of ideas that we have inherited from former generations, especially about sex and e.g. social status which in its turn leads to the recognition of the double standard by both sexes. They may not live by it, but they know what it is.
That’s a fact I came to think of when I heard that the next trend in pulp ficion is supposed to be some kind of a revival of the old ”romances”-genre. I wonder whether that means that someone like e.g. the pink-loving as well as best-selling Barbara Cartland will be having a renaissance. Well, that I doubt, but there are traits in her writings that I suspect may be revived and then presented as a new trend, as I’ve seen modern writers on several subs discussing writing something like it themselves.
Wikipedia: "Barbara Cartland (1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English writer who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
Her numerous novels are not what I call "literature", but it's interesting as a social "marker": A Cartland plot was like a fixed entity of all her books: A woman, young and innocent, without any previous sexual experiences is being noticed by a RICH, noble, but most often, demure and disillusioned man who has given up on love, e.g. ”true love” as opposed to something sexual. When it comes to ideology these romances of young, virginal women gaining status in The Patriarchy by making noble and rich men fall in love with and marry them represent the opposite of what one finds in the porn-pulp that so many men love. In those there are lots of accessible women, ready to becoming a new, free notch in the belt of some man who is described as a sexual super-hero. What happens in porn - and some Western romances - would figure as a tragedy in the old romances of, e.g., Barbara Cartland.
That means that not so long ago, each of the sexes has – or had – some easy to read pulp fiction that confirmed the general belief in the sex roles of their society: Both the male and the female pulp genres gave their readers the feeling of success for their individual gender-stereotypes. As it is, I doubt that the genuine Cartland-romance is the genre that some authors believe will have a renaissance, but who knows, it may be what the woman of today want when she is in need of a dream-fix to make her go on in a misogynistic world ....
https://www.sagaegmont.com/guinness-world-record-barbara-cartland/
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