The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera

ISBN-13: 9780198159810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 253 str.

Charlotte Brunsdon

Opis

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

Brunsdon's excellent book should be required reading for humanities and social-science-based scholars of daytime television serials and for anyone interested in the development of feminist theory and criticism from the 1970s to the present.

O autorze

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