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 ofwhich 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 ofsoap opera as a serious object of study. |
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Womens Genres and Female Agency | 19 |
Early Work on Soap Opera | 37 |
The Housewife in 1940s Mass Communication | 43 |
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