1. Mapping the fields. Women's genres and female agency. 2. Early work on soap opera : "worrying responsibility." The housewife in 1940s mass communication research : Arnheim, Kaufman, and Herzog -- Feminists taking soap opera seriously : the work of Carol Lopate, Michèle Mattelart, and Tania Modleski -- Fantasies of the housewife : the case of Crossroads. 3. Talking soap opera. Autobiography and ethnography -- "I don't think we thought about it as studying soap operas" : 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 valorize soap opera as women's TV" : Ellen Seiter -- Commonalities : writing across the interviews -- The feminist, the housewife, and the soap opera
Summary
This book traces the feminist engagement with soap opera using sources from programme publicity to interviews with scholars. It reveals that scholarship on soap opera was a significant site from which the identity feminist intellectual was produced
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
Notes
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