The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key soap opera scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site of which the identity 'feminist intellectual' was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap opera watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a broader history which traces both the move from 'women's liberation' to 'Feminism', and the acceptance of soap opera as a serious object of study.
Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
PART 1. MAPPING THE FIELDS ; PART 2. EARLY WORK ON SOAP OPERA: "WORRYING RESPONSIBILITY" ; PART 3. TALKING SOAP OPERA
Brunsdon's excellent book should be required reading for humanities and social-science-based scholars of daytime television serials and for anyone interested in the development of feminist theory and criticism from the 1970s to the present.
William Boddy, both of the City University of New York) Boddy, William (, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, and Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center
William Boddy, both of the City University of New York) Boddy, William (, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, and Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center
John Corner, University of Liverpool) Corner, John (Professor, School of Politics and Communication Studies, Professor, School of Politics and Communication Studies
John Corner, University of Liverpool) Corner, John (Professor, School of Politics and Communication Studies, Professor, School of Politics and Communication Studies