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Term for a type of popular young women's fiction

Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, Though she didn't use the term chick lit, in a review of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, the critic noted that McMillan's book was not "lofty" or "luminous" but was likely to be highly commercially successful. Carolyn See wrote, "McMillan's new work is part of another genre entirely, so new it doesn't really have a name yet. This genre has to do with women, triumph, revenge, comradeship." and, in the UK, Oxford Reference report that the term arose as a "flippant counterpart" to the term "lad lit". chick lit jr (for young readers), In India the term "Ladki Lit" has been used (see below). In Turkey, çıtır literature is a category (çıtır literally means 'crispy', but is colloquialy used to refer to attractive young women)

In 2000, Sydney Morning Herald described the "publishing phenomenon" of what it called "chicfic," books with "Covers [that] are candy bright, heavy in pink and fluorescence. The titles are also candy bright, hinting at easy digestion and a good laugh Such books are positioned in a marketplace as hybrids of the magazine article, fictional or fictionalised, television and comfort food digestible over a single night at home." "Girls of Riyadh" has been published in English and is still in print in 2023; Publishers Weekly summarises the book as describing, "Four upper class Saudi Arabian women [who] negotiate the clash between tradition and the encroaching West in this debut novel by 25 year old Saudi Alsanea. Though timid by American chick lit standards, it was banned in Saudi Arabia for its scandalous portrayal of secular life." The book is widely distributed, being sold in stores from U. S. to Europe. In the reader's guide to novel, Alsanea notes that she wants to enable her Western readers to connect with Saudi culture, seeing that the girls in the novel had the 'same dreams, emotions, and goals' as them.

In India, Rajashree's Trust Me was the biggest selling Indian chick lit novel. Swati Kaushal's Piece of Cake can be seen in the context of the rise of regional varieties of chick lit. In an interview with the New York Times, Helen Fielding said, "I think it had far more to do with zeitgeist than imitation." If the chick lit explosion has "led to great new female writers emerging from Eastern Europe and India, then it's worth any number of feeble bandwagon jumpers."

In Brazil, chick lit in translation is categorised as "Literatura de mulherzinha." inha is the Portuguese diminutive form, so this means, literally, "little women's literature." One Brazilian commentator notes, "The diminutive is not by accident. Just as its not by accident that the covers of books by women writers are usually, stereotypically feminine. With covers that suggest a light and romantic, commercial plot books by female authors arrive to the a reader with a series of biases which ensure that these authors remain on the cultural bottom rung."