The Second Wave of Feminism

Ann Douglas' argument about the romance novel being part of a backlash against the second wave of feminism makes so much sense to me. It seems as if the culture in general experienced a backlash against the second wave of feminism with the moral majority and Phyllis Schlafly who wanted to stop the ERA from being ratified. In the 80s all people seemed to want normalcy and no more hairy, bra burning women with signs. They wanted women to be what women had been in the 50s. So with that said it would make sense to me that the romance novel would come into being because the romance novel portrays women as dependent on men. This explanation can be tied to the payoff of media texts being both a production of the producers and the readers. The readers of the 80s was reacting against the second wave of feminism. The producers and the readers together created a text that was acceptable to the culture of that time. This is not to say that the Radway's thesis doesn't make sense, but I was much more ready to connect with Douglas' thesis. My question is how are readers and producers coming together today to write books for women. I guess I don't read a lot of fiction at all, so I don't know what type of books women are reading, but I hope they look like what I described back in my gender roles post.