Having a good cry Book

	Preface: Six Readers Reading - and Feeling
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Effeminacy, Feelings, Forms	1
	Effeminacy: A Third Term for Gender Studies	9
	Feelings: How Do You Really Feel?	11
	Forms: Feminist Narratology and Close Reading	23
2	The Cry: Effeminate Sentimentalism	29
	Having a Good Cry	30
	Sentimentalism and Sexism	34
	A Narratology of Good-Cry Techniques	41
	Crying Over The Color Purple	50
3	The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence	58
	Reading Too Closely for Comfort	60
	Discomforts of Reading Pretty Woman	64
4	The Thrill and the Yawn: Antieffeminate Structures of Feeling in Serial Forms	71
	Self-Conscious Serial Forms	73
	Reading the (Boring) Victorian Serial	76
	Antieffeminate Affect	88
	E-mail as an Antieffeminate Form	96
	Bending Gender and the Habits of Affect	99
5	The Climax and the Undertow: Effeminate Intensities in Soap Opera	102
	Who Is the "I" Who Watches Soaps?	105
	Intensities and Long-Term Viewing	108
	Effeminate Feeling and Soap Form	116
	Afterword: The Reader's Body from the Inside Out	120
	Notes	125
	Bibliography	135
	Index	143