Soap Opera and Women′s Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance

by Mary Ellen Brown

How can such an apparently trivial or even exploitative genre as soap opera be associated with the notion of empowerment for its viewers? Mary Ellen Brown argues that soap operas create and support a social network in which talk becomes a form of resistive pleasure. Undertaken as an ethnographic study in which the author is a member of the group, a fan and also a researcher, this book shows that engagement with soap operas creates an opening for women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803943938
• ISBN13: 9780803943933
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 8.0"