First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She edited the collection Films for Women (1986) and is the co-editor, with Julie D'Acci and Lynn Spigel, of Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (1997).

General introduction Part I The defence of soap opera 1 Crossroads: notes on soap opera 2 Writing about soap opera 3 Feminism and soap opera 4 The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television criticism Part II Career girls 5 A subject for the seventies 6 Men's genres for women 7 Post-feminism and shopping films Part III Questions of quality 8 Aesthetics and audiences 9 Problems with quality 10 Satellite dishes and the landscapes of taste Part IV Feminist identities 11 Pedagogies of the feminine 12 Identity in feminist television criticism