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
Fascinating ... makes an important contribution to feminist television studies and women's studies, particularly in its examination of the formation of the feminist intellectual and the changes in her position of 'worrying responsibly' about her imagined other.
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
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