Soap opera and women's talk
by Mary Ellen Brown · 1994
Brown states soap operas create and support a social network in which talk becomes a form of resistive pleasure. It tells how soap operas create the opening for women to serve as wedges in the dominant culture and how the hegemonic notions of femininity and womanhood are developed.
Soap operasHistory and criticismTelevision and womenTelevision viewersFeminismTelevision soap operasRadio soap operas