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Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life
Author(s): Carine Harrington (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: August 9, 1995
- Language: English
- Print length: 225 pages
- ISBN-10: 1566393302
- ISBN-13: 9781566393300
Book Description
Do soap opera fans deserve their reputation as lonely people, hopeless losers, or bored housewives? This title argues that soap fans are normal individuals who translate their soap watching into a broad range of public and private experience.
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
A dispute of the simplistic illusion of soap fans as bored housewives or losers
About the Author
C. Lee Harrington is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Miami University in Ohio.
Denise D. Bielby is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
