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Between Desire and Responsibility: Unplanned Pregnancies in Contemporary Romance Novels

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction A one-night stand followed by an unplanned pregnancy is a plot opening that offers portrayals of female sexuality, complications, and a forced relationship that may lay the ground for a love story. The examples that exist are even more interesting as fictional responses to the last decades’ polarizing debates in the US over reproductive
Institution: Uppsala University
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411210696
FWCI: 10.7
Cites: 19
Cited by: 1
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