The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera

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Clarendon Press, 2000 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 253 pages
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 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.

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The Housewife in 1940s Mass Communication
43
The Work
52
The Case of Crossroads
66
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Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

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