Dannielle Blumenthal

Women and Soap Opera

A Cultural Feminist Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women's soap opera viewing has long been thought of by feminists and nonfeminists as an unproductive waste of time. Blumenthal takes the opposing view, arguing that women's indulgence in these programs is actually liberating. In overcoming the social opposition to the stigma attached to the feminine content and style, and engaging in soap opera viewing, women celebrate their femininity, particularly their gendered identification with romance, relationality, intuitiveness, talkativeness, and other aspects of emotionality. This book will be of interest to academics in the areas of sociology, women's studies, and media studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780275960391
• ISBN-10: 0275960390
• Artikelnr.: 22051817

Autorenporträt

DANNIELLE BLUMENTHAL is a Ph.D. recipient from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

A Cultural Feminist Study Introduction The Personal as Intellectual and
Political Feminist Study and the Academy: Research as Praxis Feminist
Perspective-Taking: Some Aspects Feminist Qualitative Methodology: Some
Aspects Calling All Resources: Feminist-Compatible Methodologies and
Methods The Gender-Context Perspective and Its Antecedents Conventional
Wisdom: "Effects" and "Gratifications" Complicating the Subject: "Audience
Response" The Politics of Meaning Construction: Feminist Perspectives A
Gender-Context Perspective: Women's Soap Opera Viewing as Interrelated
Components of a Feminist Praxis The Interplay between Women Viewers and
Gendered Text On Soaps: Feminine-Oriented Emotionality as an Attraction On
Talkshows: Masculinized Emotion Displays as a Turnoff On Feminism: The
Interplay between Identity Construction and Meaning Construction in the Act
of Viewing Feminist Scholarship on the Gendered Soap Opera Text Arriving at
a Feminist Aesthetic Academic Conceptualizations of Soap Opera Form and
Content Feminist Scholarship on Soap Operas: The Feminine Aesthetic as a
Feminist Aesthetic The Gendered Social Contexts of Women's Soap Opera
Viewing Overcoming the Social Devaluation of Women's Soap Opera Viewing
Soap Operas as Self-Nurturance: Setting Aside Time Away from Caring for
Others Soap Operas as Communal Womanspace Conclusion: Implications of the
Study for Future Research Bibliography Index