The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap OperaThe 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. |
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Contents
Womens Genres and Female Agency | 19 |
The Housewife in 1940s Mass Communication | 43 |
The Work | 52 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera Oxford television studies |
| Author | Charlotte Brunsdon |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 20, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198159803, 9780198159803 |
| Length | 253 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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