Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-culture Forms

Introduction: Effeminacy, Feelings, Forms. Effeminacy: A Third Term For Gender Studies -- Feelings: How Do You Really Feel? -- Forms: Feminist Narratology And Close Reading -- The Cry: Effeminate Sentimentalism. Having A Good Cry -- Sentimentalism And Sexism -- A Narratology Of Good-cry Techniques -- Crying Over The Color Purple -- The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, And Feminist Ambivalence. Reading Too Closely For Comfort -- Discomforts Of Reading Pretty Woman -- The Thrill And The Yawn: Antieffeminate Structures Of Feeling In Serial Forms. Self-conscious Serial Forms -- Reading The (boring) Victorian Serial -- Antieffeminate Affect -- E-mail As An Antieffeminate Form -- Bending Gender And The Habits Of Affect -- The Climax And The Undertow: Effeminate Intensities In Soap Opera. Who Is The I Who Watches Soaps? -- Intensities And Long-term Viewing -- Effeminate Feeling And Soap Form -- Afterword: The Reader's Body From The Inside Out. Robyn R. Warhol. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 135-142) And Index. Electronic Reproduction. New York Available Via World Wide Web. Master And Use Copy. Digital Master Created According To Benchmark For Faithful Digital Reproductions Of Monographs And Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Http://purl.oclc.org/dlf/benchrepro0212 Miaahdl Digitized 2010 Hathitrust Digital Library Committed To Preserve Pda Miaahdl