Chapter Questions
This chapter claims that romance is an ideology that works to conceal what we really need to pay attention to behind a smokescreen of fairy dust. What does romance hide? What should we be looking at?
An ideology benefits the people with the most power in the world. How does romance benefit those who are privileged by race, gender, sexuality, and class?
Can individuals resist the lure of romance? What agency do we have when everything in our culture tells us that we should have the most spectacular engagement, the perfect white wedding, and the most exotic honeymoon?