The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera

by Charlotte Brunsdon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159803
• ISBN13: 9780198159803
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"