Sex & the Series: Sexual and Romantic Scripting in Young Adult Series Literature

Abstract

The content of series books for young women is an understudied area. With the growing young adult market and its influence on contemporary culture, the sexual content of series books should be examined to gather a better understanding of what kinds of messages these books are sending to the young adult women reading them. By analyzing the sexual and romantic content in series books from the last ten years, in conjunction with previous romantic and sexual scripting research done with magazines and romance novels, this study found evidence that supported existing theories and identified additional themes

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