Exploring female High-School students who learnExperience by reading romance novels about sexuality/gender

• Main Authors: Jung-Ying Chien, 陳榮英
• Other Authors: Hsing-Chen Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58231778869611580323

碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 人類性學研究所 === 97 === The research mainly focuses on the experience of five female High-School students who read romance novels and how they practice and apply sexuality/gender experience. In the beginning, the researcher reads 2~3 romance novels which provided by five teenage girls. After that researcher realizes script style in order to find out how they interpret the sexuality/gender meaning of romance novel for learning and practicing. This study is based on the method of deep interview, semi-structure and classification-content analysis. After interpreting and analyzing, the major findings as below: According to desires, expectations of love, recommendations from classmates or friends. They started to read romance novels in following purpose: For killing time, releasing schoolwork pressure, and satisfying desires and expectations about romantic love. Besides, it also becomes the source of exchanging and sharing feeling between peers. In addition, romance novels are become an encyclopedia for teenage girls to find out what is love. It provides the information of getting along with each other, how to increasing love and healing their loss. Reading romantic novels can satisfy teenage girls’ need of desire in love, exploration and practice sexuality in real life, which physical sexual education focus on danger and forbiddance can not to do. Furthermore, teenage girls don’t accept gender role stereotype and sexual opinion from novels, and that loose the opposite characteristic on masculine men and feminine women. Therefore, this phenomenon somewhat shakes the traditional sexuality in gender between masculine men and feminine women. Teenage girls would base on the daily life experience and social situation to interpret romance novels; and also question, criticize and rethink sexuality in real-life situation. Then it becomes the source of empowerment for sexuality/gender learning experience. It is different from earlier research which had negative opinion on romantic novels.