Romance novel can be much less successful in a European market. Although Italy is the strongest foreign market for the chick lit sold by single-title imprint Red Dress Ink, in that country romance readers do not care to read books about cowboys, as this type of occupation was not common in their culture. The paranormal romance genre is not popular in countries such as Poland and Russia, although historical romance tends to be very successful. Inspirational romance does not sell well in Europe, where romances that feature babies are very popular. German readers enjoy reading more erotic romance novels, and some German
Female gaze done when both and women can move freely between the position of subject and object. In Jessica Taylor's "Romance and the female gaze obscuring gendered violence in the Twilight Saga." Taylor criticizes the emerging female gaze and how it interacts with romance to portray violent male bodies as desirable. She focuses on the very popular "Twilight Saga" which she describes as seemingly retrograde and naive in its use of romance conventions. To explain how to female gaze works to create violent male bodies as desirable. She looks back on the work of Mulvey and her essay “Visual pleasure and Narrative