Mills and Boon "Romance" (erotic) novel

The female gender is represented as clearly a stereotypical cliche of erotic novels although this isnt always seen as a sexist trend as its a womans erotic novel it's aimed at those with a certain influence of  dominating fetish not so much a social stamp of the worlds views of woman. This is clearly demonstrated by the use of actor and affected, the actor (male) doing to which he pleases the woman (affected) to give the image of control firmly fixated on the males part and the vunerable damsel in distress on the woman for example "they stared deep into her soul" shows the hierachy of power in terms of gender with the male clearly leaving the woman vunerable. This is peculiar as its accompanied by modern manipulation of roles, where as before these books would see a sucsessful man with a less so woman, the herorine in this extract is made out of a doctor- breaking free of previous cliches and shifting the balancing scales of representation of gender to  better women.