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Adams, L. 2004.: "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" The Horn Book Magazine. 80:669-680.[1]

Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004.: “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in Sex and the City,” Reading Sex and the City. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.

Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." Gender Studies 1, no. 7: 39-48.

Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009.: "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 70, no. 11: 4284. [2]

Arosteguy, Katie. 2010.: "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." Women's Studies 39, no. 5: 409-429.

Arthurs, Jane.: “Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” Feminist Media Studies 3.1 (2003): 83-98.

Balducci, Federica. 2011.: A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [3]

Balducci, Federica. 2011.: “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1.[4]

Baloria, Nitasha. 2014.: "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations 2.1.[5]

Baloria, Nitasha. 2014.: "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," European Academic Research 2.7. [6]

Benstock, Shari.: "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.

Boyd, Elizabeth B.: "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.

Burns, Amy, 2011.: "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 4.1. Links to abstract and pdf

Burns, Amy, 2012.: "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." Graduate Journal of Social Science 9.3.[7]

Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai.: “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” Meridians 8.2 (2008): 1-31. Abstract

Campbell, P. 2006.: "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." The Horn Book Magazine. 82 (4):487-491.[8]

Cano López, Marina.: "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s Me and Mr. Darcy." Persuasions 31.1 (2010).[9]

Carvalho, Charmaine.: "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction." Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 41 (2016): 13-32. [10]

Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman. Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.

Chen, Eva.: "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." Feminist Media Studies (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). Abstract

Chen Eva Yin-i.: "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[11]

Craddock, Louise.: "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 43-51. Whole issue as pdf.

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Davis-Kahl, Stephanie.: "The Case for Chick Lit in Academic Libraries." Collection Building 27.1 (2008): 18-21. Abstract and link to pdf

Dorney, Kate.: "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 12-22. Whole issue as pdf.

Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.

Ebert, Teresa L. 2009.: The task of cultural critique. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] Excerpt

Ehriander, Helene, 2015.: "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1.[12]

Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009.: "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture, 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.

Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young.: "Introduction." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young.: “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue 6 (2006): 87-97. [13]

Ferris, Suzanne.: "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.

Ferris, Suzanne.: "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.

Fest, Kerstin. 2009.: "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 38, no. 1: 43-62.

Frater, Lara. 2009.: "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. The Fat Studies Reader. New York: New York University Press. 235-240. Excerpt

Frenkel, Ronit, 2019.: “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” Feminist Theory, (February 2019). Abstract

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Gamble, Sarah.: "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[14]

Gehrmann, Susanne.: “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” Feminist Theory, Feb. 2019. Abstract

Gennaro, Stephen.: “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” Nebula 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[15]

Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009.: Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] Excerpt

Gerhard, Jane.: “Sex and the City: Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” Feminist Media Studies 5.1 (2005): 37-49.

Ghosh, Srijani.: "Res Emptito Ergo Sum: Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic." Journal of Popular Culture 46.2 (2013): 378-393. Excerpt

Gill, Rosalind.: "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[16]

Gill, Rosalind and Elena Herdieckerhoff.: "Rewriting the Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit?" Feminist Media Studies 6.4 (2006): 487-504. [Abstract and pdf available from LSE Research Online]

Gormley, Sarah.: "Introduction." Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[17]

Gorton, Kristyn.: "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 23-28. Whole issue as pdf.

Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė.: "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai 39.1 (2013): 125-129. Abstract and link to pdf. Pdf

Guerrero, Lisa A.: "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.

Gunne, Sorcha.: 'World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit', Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity, Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger (2016). Abstract pdf (in pre-print version)

Gunne, Sorcha.: ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [pre-print version]

Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010.: "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media, 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. Excerpt

Hale, Elizabeth.: "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.

Harzewski, Stephanie. 2004.: "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Interview Symposium with Caren Lissner, Melissa Senate, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and Jennifer Weiner." In Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers,. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja, 2004. 689-719.

Harzewski, Stephanie.: "Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 29–46.

Harzewski, Stephanie.: "The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics" (January 1, 2006). Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3225468. [Abstract http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3225468]

Harzewski, Stephanie.: Chick Lit and Postfeminism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Hedrick, Tace.: Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. Details and excerpt

Henry, Astrid.: “Orgasms and Empowerment. Sex and the City and the Third Wave Feminism.” Reading Sex and the City. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.

Hewett, Heather.: "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.

Horrocks, Clare.: "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 59-64. Whole issue as pdf.

Hurst, Rochelle.: “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” Australian Feminist Studies 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by Emma Darcy) and comparison with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see this article by Jessica at Read React Review].

Hurt, Erin. 2009.: "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." MELUS 34, no. 3: 133-153.

Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018.: Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre. Routledge. Excerpt

Isbister, Georgina C.: "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[18]

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Jermyn, Deborah.: “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in Sex and the City.” Reading Sex and the City. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.

Jermyn, Deborah.: Sex and the City. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.

Johnson, Joanna Webb.: "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.

Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee.: "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." Body Image (2012). Abstract

Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007.: Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels. Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. Abstract

Kiernan, Anna.: "No Satisfaction: Sex and the City, Run Catch Kiss, and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.

Knowles, Joanne.: "Editorial." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 3-4. Whole issue as pdf.

Knowles, Joanne.: "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 37-42. Whole issue as pdf.

Knowles, Joanne. 2008.: "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." Popular Narrative Media 1.2 (2008): 217-231.

Kohli, Joy.: Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.

Konchar Farr, Cecilia.: "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. Excerpt

Leffler, Yvonne.: "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised, Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. Excerpt

Lenz, Christian.: Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. Excerpt

Lerman, Amy S.: “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.

Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak.: "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. Sexual Health. Online first, 27 July 2018. Abstract

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Mabry, A. Rochelle.: "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.

Markle, Gail.: “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” Sexuality and Culture 12 (2008): 45-57.

Mathew, Imogen Louise.: "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 15.3 (2015). Abstract and pdf.

Mathew, Imogen.: "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." Contemporary Women's Writing (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. Excerpt

Mazza, Cris.: "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.

Mazza, Cris. 2000.: "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.

Merck, Mandy.: “Sexuality in the City.” Reading Sex and the City. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.

Missler, Heike.: The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation. New York: Routledge, 2017. Excerpt

Moody, Nickianne.: "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 52-58. Whole issue as pdf.

Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010.: "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." Journal of Popular Culture 43, no. 2: 309-329.

Nelson, Ashley.: “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in Sex and the City and Beyond.” Reading Sex and the City. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.

Newns, Lucinda, 2017.: "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Online first. 1-17. Abstract

Oberoi, Sonia Vashista, 2017.: "Indian Chick Lit: A Genre for Desi Girls." International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) 7.2: 127-132.[19]

Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008.: "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345

Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011.: "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." Contemporary Women's Writing 5.2: 107-124. Abstract

Oria, Beatriz, 2012.: “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in Sex and the City,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1.[20]

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Pérez-Serrano, Elena.: "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[21]

Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009.: "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." Educational Gerontology 35, no. 2: 135-145.

Regules, Anne E. 2006.: Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ross, Sharon Marie.: “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s Sex and the City.” The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.

Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012.: "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." Australian Feminist Studies, Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. Abstract

Ryan, Mary, 2009.: ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ MP: An Online Feminist Journal 2.5: 27-41.[22]

Ryan, Mary, 2010.: "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." 452F Journal of Comparative Literature 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[23]

Ryan, Mary, 2010.: "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship 7.3: 137-149.[24]

Ryan, Mary, 2011.: “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature 1.1 [25]

Ryan, Mary, 2011.: “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” 452°F Journal of Comparative Literature 4: 110-130.[26]

Ryan, Mary, 2011.: "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship 8.1: 209-224.[27]

Ryan, Mary, 2011.: ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2: 209-225. Abstract

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Santaemilia, J. 2008.: The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction 21, (2): 221-252

Sellei, Nora.: "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.

Smith, Caroline J. 2005.: "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 34, no. 8: 671-699.

Smith, Caroline J. 2007.: "The Girls' Guide to Creating Community: Analyzing Reading Communities in Chick Lit." In Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences,. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 352-371.

Smith, Caroline J.: Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit. New York: Routledge, 2008. Excerpt

Smyczyńska, Katarzyna.: "Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillennial Constructions of Male 'Other' in Chicklit Novels." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 29-36. Whole issue as pdf.

Smyczyńska, Katarzyna.: The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014.: "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. PDF [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]

Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008.: "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.

Taylor, Anthea. 2011.: Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: Bridget Jones's Diary and its Cultural Reverberations"]

Thoma, Pamela.: "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." Contemporary Women's Writing 2013. Excerpt

Umminger, Alison.: "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.

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Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn.: "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Trilogy." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.

Veseljević Jerković, Selma.: "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." Društvene i humanističke studije 4.2(8): 89-102. Abstract pdf

Wells, Juliette.: "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.

Whelehan, Imelda.: Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism. London: The Women’s Press Ltd., 2000. [Looks at various aspects of popular culture: men's magazines (Loaded, Maxim, GQ); TV shows (Ally McBeal, Sex in the City, Men Behaving Badly) and novels (Bridget Jones' Diary).]

Whelehan, Imelda.: Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Continuum, 2002. Excerpt

Whelehan, Imelda.: "Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown." Essays and Studies 2004: Contemporary British Women Writers. Ed. Emma Parker. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

Whelehan, Imelda.: "High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties." Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 8 (2004): 5-11. Whole issue as pdf.

Whelehan, Imelda.: "Teening Chick Lit?" Chick Lit. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[28]

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+;Adams, L. 2004. : "Chick Lit and Chick Flicks: Secret Power or Flat Formula?" '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 80:669-680.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2004/nov04_adams.asp]
+;Akass, Kim, and Janet McCabe, 2004. : “Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Female Narrative and Humour in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 177-198.
 ;Alb, Anemona Filip. 2008.: "Protean Femininities: Shifting Stereotypes in 'Chick Lit'." ''Gender Studies'' 1, no. 7: 39-48.
-;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284.
+;Arosteguy, Katie O'Donnell. 2009. : "The Clothes Do Make the Women: The Politics of Fashioning Femininity in Contemporary American Chick Lit." ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 70, no. 11: 4284. [http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/k_arosteguy_040109.pdf. ]
+;Arosteguy, Katie. 2010. : "The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." ''Women's Studies'' 39, no. 5: 409-429.
+;Arthurs, Jane. : “''Sex and the City'' and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 3.1 (2003): 83-98.
+;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : ''A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit''. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian. [http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1929]
+;Balducci, Federica. 2011. : “When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction,” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/12/when-chick-lit-meets-romanzo-rosa-intertextual-narratives-in-stefania-bertola%E2%80%99s-romantic-fiction-by-federica-balducci/]
+;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "To Be or Not To Be a 'Wife': Theme of Marriage in the Works of Marian Keyes," ''Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations'' 2.1.[http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/56-nitasha-baloria.pdf]
+;Baloria, Nitasha. 2014. : "Is Chick Lit a Fluff or a Product of Jane Austen’s Style?," ''European Academic Research'' 2.7. [http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/984.pdf]
 ;Benstock, Shari. : "Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 253-???.
 ;Boyd, Elizabeth B. : "Ya Yas, Grits, and Sweet Potato Queens: Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions That Guide Them." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 159-172.
+;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]
+;Burns, Amy, 2012. : "The Postfeminist Flâneuse: The Literary Value of Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Graduate Journal of Social Science'' 9.3.[http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/9/3/Burns.pdf]
 ;Butler, Pamela and Jigna Desai. : “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” ''Meridians'' 8.2 (2008): 1-31. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/meridians/v008/8.2.butler.html Abstract]
+;Campbell, P. 2006. : "The Sand in the Oyster The Lit of Chick Lit." '' The Horn Book Magazine.'' 82 (4):487-491.[http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2006/jul06_campbell.asp]
+;Cano López, Marina. : "Looking Back in Desire; or How Jane Austen Rewrites Chick Lit in Alexandra Potter’s ''Me and Mr. Darcy''." ''Persuasions'' 31.1 (2010).[http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol31no1/cano-lopez.html]
+;Carvalho, Charmaine. : "Chick Lit in India: Possibilities for a Feminine Aesthetic in Popular Fiction."  ''Estetyka i Krytyka The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'' 41 (2016): 13-32. [http://estetykaikrytyka.pl/art/41/eik_41_1.pdf]
+;Caselli, Carolyn Ann. 2006.: ''Chick Lit : postmodern literature for the everywoman.'' Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Northridge.
+;Chen, Eva. : "Shanghai(ed) Babies: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Global Chick Lit." ''Feminist Media Studies'' (advanced release 6 Oct. 2011). [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14680777.2011.597102 Abstract]
+;Chen Eva Yin-i. : "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit", ''Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies'' 36.1 (2010): 243-275.[http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Transnational%20Taiwan/11.pdf]
 ;Craddock, Louise. : "Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-market Popular Romance and Feminism." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 43-51. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
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 ;Dorney, Kate. : "Shop Boys and Girls! Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 12-22. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
+;Dunn, Hannah. 2005.: ''Making the personal political: reflexivity as neo-feminist activism in Brit-art and Chick-lit.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado.
+;Ebert, Teresa L. 2009. : ''The task of cultural critique.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [Chapter-Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels"] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OEYGxoLGApYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
+;Ehriander, Helene, 2015. : "Chick Lit in Historical Settings by Frida Skybäck", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/chick-lit-in-historical-settings-by-frida-skybackby-helene-ehriander/]
 ;Farr, Cecilia Konchar. 2009. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." In ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture'', 201-214. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2009.
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 ;Ferriss, Suzanne and Mallory Young. : “Chicks, Girls and Choice: Redefining Feminism.” ''Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue'' 6 (2006): 87-97. [http://www.junctures.org/issues.php?issue=06&title=Language&colour=rgb(73,47,146)]
-;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-??.
+;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Narrative and Cinematic Doubleness: ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary''." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 71-84.
+;Ferris, Suzanne. : "Working Girls: The Precariat of Chick Lit", in Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Elana Levine (University of Illinois, 2015): 177-???.
 ;Fest, Kerstin. 2009. : "Angels in the House or Girl Power: Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Novels and Contemporary Chick Lit." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 38, no. 1: 43-62.
+;Frater, Lara. 2009. : "Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?" in Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. ''The Fat Studies Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. 235-240. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtLWPWNO8gUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
+;Frenkel, Ronit, 2019. : “Pleasure as Genre: Popular Fiction, South African Chick-Lit and Nthikeng Mohlele’s Pleasure.” ''Feminist Theory'', (February 2019). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831537#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]
 ==G-I==
 ;Gamble, Sarah. : "When Romantic Heroines Turn Bad: The Rise of the ‘Anti-Chicklit’ Novel." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gamble.html]
+;Gehrmann, Susanne. : “Emerging Afro-Parisian ‘Chick-Lit’ by Lauren Ekué and Léonora Miano.” ''Feminist Theory'', Feb. 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700119831539#articleCitationDownloadContainer Abstract]
+;Gennaro, Stephen. : “Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?” ''Nebula'' 4.1 (2007). 1 August 2009.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gennaro.pdf]
+;Genz, Stéphanie, and Benjamin A. Brabon. 2009. : ''Postfeminism: cultural texts and theories.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Chapter - Girl power and chick lit, on pages 76-90.] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yUGpvXJe9NAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
+;Gerhard, Jane.  : “''Sex and the City'': Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” ''Feminist Media Studies'' 5.1 (2005): 37-49.
+;Ghosh, Srijani. : "''Res Emptito Ergo Sum'': Fashion and Commodity Fetishism in Sophie Kinsella’s ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 378-393. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12031/abstract Excerpt]
 ;Gill, Rosalind. : "Lad lit as mediated intimacy: A postfeminist tale of female power, male vulnerability and toast." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/gill.html]
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 ;Gorton, Kristyn. : "'Kiss My Tiara': Chicklit and Female Empowerment." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 23-28. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
+;Gruslytė, Monika, Aurelija Taujanskaitė, and Erika Žemaitytė. : "The tradition of consciousness-raising fiction in contemporary popular fiction Chick lit." ''Straipsnis leidinyje: Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai'' 39.1 (2013): 125-129. [http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129 Abstract and link to pdf.] [http://vddb.library.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:J.04~2013~ISSN_1648-8776.N_1_39.PG_125-129/DS.002.1.01.ARTIC Pdf]
 ;Guerrero, Lisa A. : "'Sistahs Are Doin' It For Themselves': Chick Lit in Black and White." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 87-102.
+;Gunne, Sorcha. : 'World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit', ''Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity'', Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger (2016). [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315708621/chapters/10.4324/9781315708621-25 Abstract] [https://www.academia.edu/37300753/World-Literature_World-Systems_and_Irish_Chick_Lit?email_work_card=title pdf (in pre-print version)]
+;Gunne, Sorcha. : ‘Gender, Genre and Modernity: Popular Romance Fiction in Ireland’, ''Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction'', Ed. L Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press [in press]. [[https://www.academia.edu/37300918/Gender_Genre_and_Modernity_Popular_Romance_Fiction_in_Ireland pre-print version]]
+;Gymnich, Marion, and Kathrin Ruhl. 2010. : "Revisiting the Classical Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone's Diary and Bride and Prejudice." In ''Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media'', 23-44. Göttingen, Germany: V&R, 2010. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VWcRp0Xy41IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
 ;Hale, Elizabeth. : "Long-Suffering Professional Females: The Case of Nanny Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 103-118.
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 ;Harzewski, Stephanie. : ''Chick Lit and Postfeminism.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
+;Hedrick, Tace. : ''Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century''. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2015. [https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36578 Details and excerpt]
+;Henry, Astrid. : “Orgasms and Empowerment. ''Sex and the City'' and the Third Wave Feminism.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 65-82.
 ;Hewett, Heather. : "You Are Not Alone: The Personal, the Political and the 'New' Mommy Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 119-140.
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 ;Horrocks, Clare. : "Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 59-64. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
-;Hurst, Rochelle. “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].
+<!-- author has requested that her work not be listed. ;Hudnett, Alicia Rose. 2005.: ''Married to the marriage plot: Jane Austen's influence on modern "Chick Lit".'' Thesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2005.-->
+;Hurst, Rochelle. : “The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate.” ''Australian Feminist Studies'' 24.62 (2009): 453-468. [Feminist critique of Harlequin Mills & Boons (especially a selection by [[Emma Darcy]]) and comparison with Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones'' novels. For a discussion of why many aspects of this essay's methodology are troubling, from an academic perspective, see [http://www.readreactreview.com/2010/02/10/feminist-critique-of-romance-ur-doin-it-wrong/ this article by Jessica at ''Read React Review'']].
+;Hurt, Erin. 2009. : "Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club.." ''MELUS'' 34, no. 3: 133-153.
+;Hurt, Erin (ed.) 2018. : ''Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre''. Routledge. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=unx0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
 ;Isbister, Georgina C. : "Chick Lit: A Postfeminist Fairy Tale." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/isbister.html]
 ==J-L==
+;Jermyn, Deborah. : “In Love with Sarah Jessica Parker: Celebrating Female Fandom and Friendship in ''Sex and the City''.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 201-217.
+;Jermyn, Deborah. : ''Sex and the City''. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2009.
 ;Johnson, Joanna Webb. : "Chick Lit Jnr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 141-158.
+;Kaminski, Melissa J. and Robert G. Magee. : "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: The Effect of Protagonist Body Weight and Body Esteem on Female Readers' Body Esteem." ''Body Image'' (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.009 Abstract]
+;Kent, Paula Rachel. 2007. : '' Think pink and high heels: women and beauty as represented in chick lit novels.'' Thesis (M.A.) Stephenville, Tex: Tarleton State University. [http://gradworks.umi.com/14/55/1455093.html Abstract]
 ;Kiernan, Anna. : "No Satisfaction: ''Sex and the City'', ''Run Catch Kiss'', and the Conflict of Desires in Chick Lit's New Heroines." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 207-218.
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 ;Knowles, Joanne. : "Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 37-42. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
+;Knowles, Joanne. 2008. : "'Our foes are almost as many as our readers': debating the worth of women's reading and writing--the case of chick-lit." ''Popular Narrative Media'' 1.2 (2008): 217-231.
+;Kohli, Joy. : ''Governing Women’s Sexuality in “Sex and the City”: Pleasure, Relationships And Reproduction''. Ann Arbor: Proquest, 2008.
 ;Konchar Farr, Cecilia. : "It Was Chick Lit All Along: The Gendering of a Genre." ''You've Come A Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture''. Ed. Lilly J. Goren. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 201-214. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G132LEhM4ucC&lpg=PA208&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
+;Leffler, Yvonne. : "Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?" ''Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised'', Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 155-182. [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137472236.0008 Excerpt]
+;Lenz, Christian. : ''Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit''. PhD thesis, TU Dortmund University, 2014. Verlag 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rrgADAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
 ;Lerman, Amy S. : “Jane Green and the Contemporary ‘Singleton’: Why Women Can Laugh at their Bachelorette Predicaments.” ''The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference''. Ed. Leslie Fife. 1285-1298.
+;Lim, Megan S.C., Margaret E. Hellard and Danielle Horyniak. :  "Safe Sex in Chick Lit: a ‘Novel’ Analysis of Sexual Health References in Popular Women’s Fiction. ''Sexual Health''. Online first, 27 July 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1071/SH18017 Abstract]
 ==M-O==
 ;Mabry, A. Rochelle. : "About a Girl: Female Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary 'Chick' Culture." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 191-206.
+;Markle, Gail. : “Can Women Have Sex Like a Man? Sexual Scripts in Sex and the City.” ''Sexuality and Culture'' 12 (2008): 45-57.
+;Mathew, Imogen Louise. : "‘The Pretty and the Political Didn’t Seem to Blend Well’: Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit and the Destabilisation of a Genre", ''JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature'' 15.3 (2015). [https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10575 Abstract and pdf].
+;Mathew, Imogen. : "Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’s Chick Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' (2016). First published online: July 31, 2016. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/31/cww.vpw019.extract# Excerpt]
 ;Mazza, Cris. : "Who's Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre."  ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 17-28.
 ;Mazza, Cris. 2000. : "Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit." ''Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship'' 8, no. 1-2: 101-112.
+;Merck, Mandy. : “Sexuality in the City.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 48-62.
+;Missler, Heike. : ''The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation''. New York: Routledge, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVtuDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
 ;Moody, Nickianne. : "Empathy and Irony in the Soundtrack to Chicklit." ''Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions'' 8 (2004): 52-58. [http://www.arpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No.-8-Winter-2004.pdf Whole issue as pdf.]
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 ;Morrison, Amanda Maria. 2010. : "Chicanas and 'Chick Lit': Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 43, no. 2: 309-329.
-;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2008. 327-345
+;Nelson, Ashley. : “Sister Carrie meets Carrie Bradshaw: Exploring Progress, Politics and the Single Woman in ''Sex and the City'' and Beyond.” ''Reading Sex and the City''. Eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. 83-95.
+;Newns, Lucinda, 2017. : "Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit." ''Journal of Commonwealth Literature''. Online first. 1-17. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416686156 Abstract]
+;Oberoi, Sonia Vashista, 2017. : "Indian Chick Lit: A Genre for ''Desi'' Girls." ''International Journal of English and Literature'' (IJEL) 7.2: 127-132.[https://www.academia.edu/34615388/INDIAN_CHICK_LIT_A_GENRE_FOR_DESI_GIRLS?email_work_card=title]
+;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2008. : "From China with Love: Chick Lit and the New Crossover Fiction." In ''China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story,''. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. 327-345
+;Ommundsen, Wenche. 2011. : "Sex and the Global City: Chick Lit with a Difference." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 5.2: 107-124. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/107.extract Abstract]
+;Oria, Beatriz, 2012. : “’Just Say Yes’: the Romanticisation of Love in ''Sex and the City'',” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 3.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/just-say-yes-the-romanticisation-of-love-in-sex-and-the-city-by-beatriz-oria/]
 ==P-R==
 ;Pérez-Serrano, Elena. : "Chick Lit and Marian Keyes: The ideological background of the genre." ''[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/ Chick Lit]''. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009). Ed. Sarah Gormley and Sara Mills.[http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/chicklit/perezserrano.html]
+;Perez-Serrano, Elena. 2009. : "Growing Old Before Old Age: Ageing in the Fiction of Marian Keyes." ''Educational Gerontology'' 35, no. 2: 135-145.
+;Regules, Anne E. 2006. : ''Working women re-working the romance: chick-lit from Kate Chopin to Jennifer Weiner and Sex and the City.'' Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at San Antonio.
+;Ross, Sharon Marie. : “Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s ''Sex and the City''.” ''The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed''. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura Linder. New York: State University of NY Press, 2005. 111-122.
+;Rowntree, Margaret, Nicole Moulding and Lia Bryant, 2012. : "Feminine Sexualities in Chick Lit." ''Australian Feminist Studies'', Volume 27, Issue 72: 121-137. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2012.648259 Abstract]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2009. : ‘What a Way to Make a Living: Irish Chick Lit and the Working World.’ ''MP: An Online Feminist Journal'' 2.5: 27-41.[http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chick_Ryan.pdf]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Trivial or Commendable? : Women's Writing, Popular Culture, and Chick Lit." ''452F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 3 (July 2010): 70-84.[http://www.452f.com/en/mary-ryan.html]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2010. : "Stepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and Representing the ‘Other’ in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 7.3: 137-149.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “The Bodies of Chick Lit: Positive Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” ''Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature'' 1.1 [http://inquire.streetmag.org/articles/13]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : “Then and Now: Memories of a Patriarchal Ireland in the Work of Marian Keyes.” ''452°F Journal of Comparative Literature'' 4: 110-130.[http://www.452f.com/en/ryan.html]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : "Ending the Silence: Representing Women’s Reproductive Lives in Irish Chick Lit." ''Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship'' 8.1: 209-224.[http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan3.pdf]
+;Ryan, Mary, 2011. : ‘Amongst Women: Male Romance Authors and Irish Chick Lit Author, Andrew O’Connor’, ''The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture'' 1.2: 209-225. [http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=11989/ Abstract]
 ==S-U==
+;Santaemilia, J. 2008. : The translation of sex-related language: The danger(s) of self-censorship(s). ''TTR: Traduction, Terminologie et Redaction'' 21, (2): 221-252
+;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-188.
 ;Smith, Caroline J. 2005. : "Living the Life of a Domestic Goddess: Chick Lit's Response to Domestic-Advice Manuals." ''Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 34, no. 8: 671-699.
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 ;Smyczyńska, Katarzyna. : ''The World According to Bridget Jones: Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.
-;Sellei, Nora. : "Bridget Jones and Hungarian Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 173-???.
+;Spencer, Lynda Gichanda, 2014. : "Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa: Emerging Writers from Post-Repressive Regimes." PhD Thesis, Stellenbosch University, April 2014. [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/86251/spencer_writing_2014.pdf PDF] [See Chapter 3, which "explores how Goretti Kyomuhendo, Zukiswa Wanner and Angela Makholwa and Cynthia Jele embrace chick lit as a form of writing that allows them to reflect on the lived realities of women."]
 ;Tangney, ShaunAnne. 2008. : "Chick Lit Matters: From Femme Covert to Fendi, Feminine Fiction Provides Feminist Critique." In ''Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women's Heritage,''. Minot, ND: Minot State University, 2008. 49-63.
-;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-???.
+;Taylor, Anthea. 2011. : ''Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism.''New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [See in particular Chapter 3: "Spinsters and Singletons: ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' and its Cultural Reverberations"]
+;Thoma, Pamela. : "Romancing the Self and Negotiating Consumer Citizenship in Asian American Labor Lit." ''Contemporary Women's Writing'' 2013. [http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/26/cww.vps036.extract# Excerpt]
+;Umminger, Alison. : "Supersizing Bridget Jones: What's Really Eating the Women in Chick Lit." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 239-252.
 ==V-Z==
 ;Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. : "Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella's ''Shopaholic'' Trilogy." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 219-238.
+;Veseljević Jerković, Selma. : "Mad about the Boy: The Phenomenon of Fictional Autobiography." ''Društvene i humanističke studije'' 4.2(8): 89-102. [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/268 Abstract] [http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/download/268/204 pdf]
 ;Wells, Juliette. : "Mother of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers, and Literary History." ''Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006. 47-70.