Cross posting this. Here is a passage from Melissa Click's 'research paper'. (Not kidding.)
The changing contexts of feminist scholarship and post-feminist culture make Twilight scholarship different from earlier efforts at studying feminized cultural forms. In Bitten by Twilight, the updating of feminist approaches to feminized popular culture occurs on several fronts. For one, multiple contributors attend to the politics of race, age, and sexuality as well as gender. The influences of "third world" and multicultural feminisms have demanded such a focus and Twilight itself speaks to these constructs. Not only does the vampire/human connection at the heart of the narrative hearken to cross-race relations, so too does the opposition between vampires and werewolves
I'm speechless. Adults are writing academic papers on tween romance novels; and she was making 70k a year to do this. But, I think the big thing is how in many of these papers shit is just made up, or referenced from anecdotal experience.
This is what it would have been like watching scripture for the Bible be written by various 'enlightened' people at the time. Just a bunch of people commenting on current events, making up dogma based off of it and hoping it gets tossed into the ideological lexicon.