“It [women's culture] survives also because it's central fantasy, and the one this book elaborates, is the constantly emplotted desire of a complex person to rework the details of her history to become a vague or simpler version of herself, usually in the vicinity of a love plot” Feminist TheoryConventionalityIntimate PublicWomen S Culture Book:The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture Source: The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture