Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

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.

• PART 1. MAPPING THE FIELDS ; PART 2. EARLY WORK ON SOAP OPERA: "WORRYING RESPONSIBILITY" ; PART 3. TALKING SOAP OPERA

Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

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.

• PART 1. MAPPING THE FIELDS ; PART 2. EARLY WORK ON SOAP OPERA: "WORRYING RESPONSIBILITY" ; PART 3. TALKING SOAP OPERA

Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

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.

• PART 1. MAPPING THE FIELDS ; PART 2. EARLY WORK ON SOAP OPERA: "WORRYING RESPONSIBILITY" ; PART 3. TALKING SOAP OPERA