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

Sage Publications (1994)
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Abstract

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.

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