Mother Courage and Her Soaps: Incendies, Weeds, Nurse Jackie, and Daytime Drama

摘要

The decline of the soap opera as a major form of popular culture highlights the importance of that form in creating and maintaining a shared subculture for women. Soap operas are contrasted with recent television and film works that present the struggles of women in a different way, highlighting the distinctive features of soap operas as women's sub cultural forms.