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Print Culture Colloquium

Why Do Straight Women Read and Create Boys’ Love Stories?

Event Details

Date
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Time
12 p.m.
Location
SLIS Commons, room 4207, Helen C. White Hall
Description
In recent years, Boys’ Love (BL) stories have become a popular genre of pleasure reading among women readers in the Asian countries, especially in Japan, China and Taiwan. BL stories are love stories of two or more male characters created predominantly by women for women; most of them identify themselves as heterosexual.
Cost
Free