The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera

ISBN-13: 9780198159803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 220 str.

Charlotte Brunsdon

Opis

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.

Recenzje

the book is an example of post-second-wave feminist self-consciousness at its consciousness-raising best.

O autorze

Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick