Vintage Harlequin Romance pocketbooks!

These late 60s and early 70s-era Harlequin romances serve as fascinating cultural artifacts that reveal the prevailing social attitudes, gender expectations, and moral frameworks of their time. These mass-market novels, while often dismissed as mere escapist fiction, actually function as mirrors reflecting anxieties, aspirations, and evolving norms. The evolution of Harlequin storylines traces broader societal shifts around women's autonomy, workplace equality, and changing relationship dynamics. The consistent popularity of certain tropes, the gradual inclusion of diverse characters and relationships, and the ways these books navigate topics like consent, power dynamics, and family structures all offer researchers valuable insights into how popular culture both responds to and shapes cultural expectations around love, sex, and romance across different generations. Also -- there's smooching. - Those Endearing Young Charms - Margaret Malcolm - A Taste For Love - Joyce Dingwell - The Quiet Heart - Susan Barrie - Spirit Of The Sun - Dorothy Cork - Rapture of the Desert - Violet Winspear - Flutter of White Wings - Elizabeth Ashton Published by Harlequin Books, Toronto. Circa late 60s and early 70s. Paperbacks. Approx. 4.5x6.5in. Fair condition -- these were ephemeral pulp paperbacks, so they definitely show wear and aging. The spines are a little delicate.