The Feminist, The Housewife, and the Soap Opera
Charlotte Brunsdon
Price: £40.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815980-3
Publication date: 24 February 2000
220 pages, 9 b/w text illus., 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Television Studies
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| - '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.' - R.R. Warhol, CHOICE, Nov.00, Vol.38, No.3.
- 'the book is an example of post-second-wave feminist self-consciousness at its consciousness-raising best.' - R.R. Warhol, CHOICE, Nov.00, Vol.38, No.3.
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| Description | | - Integrates personal autobiographical accounts and broader historical study
- Traces both the development of 'women's liberation' into 'Feminism' and the acceptance of soap opera as a serious object of study
| | 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 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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Readership: Feminist scholars, media scholars, those interested in oral history.
| Contents |
Introduction
Part 1. Mapping the Fields
Women's genres and female agency
Part 2. Early Work on Soap Opera: "Worrying Responsibility"
The Housewife in the 1940s Mass Communication Research: Arnheim, Kaufman, and Herzog
Feminists Taking Soap Opera Seriously: The Work of Carol Lopate, Michele Mattelart, and Tania Modleski
Fantasies of the Housewife: The Case of Crossroads
Part 3. Talking Soap Opera
Autobiography and Ethnography
'I don't think we thought about it as studying soap opera': Christine Geraghty
'What about the rest of the audience?' Dorothy Hobson
'Slightly guilty pleasures': Terry Lovell
'The pleasure of a programme like this is not something simple': Ien Ang
'A sense of trying to valorise soap opera as women's TV': Ellen Seiter
Commonalties: Writing Across the Interviews
The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera
Appendix
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
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Charlotte Brunsdon, Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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