Fascinating ... makes an important contribution to feminist television studies and women's studies, particularly in its examination of the formation of the feminist intellectual and the changes in her position of 'worrying responsibly' about her imagined other.

Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory

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.

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