Catherine M. Roach is Professor of Gender and Culture Studies in New College at the University of Alabama and author of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture. She publishes romance fiction as Catherine LaRoche.

"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction." (The Journal of Popular Culture) Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike.- Publishers Weekly

• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. CummingsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction 4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic FaithEpilogue: Lessons from Romancing the AcademicNotesBibliographyIndex

Catherine M. Roach is Professor of Gender and Culture Studies in New College at the University of Alabama and author of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture. She publishes romance fiction as Catherine LaRoche.

"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction." (The Journal of Popular Culture) Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike.- Publishers Weekly

• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. CummingsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction 4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic FaithEpilogue: Lessons from Romancing the AcademicNotesBibliographyIndex

Catherine M. Roach is Professor of Gender and Culture Studies in New College at the University of Alabama and author of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture. She publishes romance fiction as Catherine LaRoche.

"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction." (The Journal of Popular Culture) Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike.- Publishers Weekly

• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. CummingsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction 4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic FaithEpilogue: Lessons from Romancing the AcademicNotesBibliographyIndex