The Feminist the Housewife and the Soap Opera

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.