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NO END TO HER: SOAP OPERA & THE FEMALE SUBJECT (1993) Days of our Lives Soaps Santa Barbara
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This is a rare vintage and out of print copy of No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject written by Martha Nochimson (Author) in 1993 and books published and distributed by University of California Press; First edition (March 29, 1993). This softcover book measures 6.03 x 0.63 x 9.02 inches and is 237 pages in length. See photos for condition.
WOMEN'S STUDIES / POPULAR CULTURE / COMMUNICATIONS
"In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power.
Even though soap opera commands a vast and loyal audience, it has been trivialized by the mainstream media and even libeled as a form of pornography designed to keep women in their place. In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Martha Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective and responds to complex issues of women's desires and power by creating strong, active female characters.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a domineering, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, women in soap operas resist their stabilizing role in male hierarchies. In breaking with traditional narrative, soaps create a distinctly feminine, open-ended format capable of tolerating ambiguity and lack of resolution. Soap operas emerge as vessels of a subterranean female power and defy women's "assigned" place in male-designed social structures.
It is time, Nochimson argues, to take a fresh look at one of America's few original art forms. Anyone interested in television, American culture, and gender roles will find No End to Her a startling and compelling read.
From radio's Mary Noble in Backstage Wife to television's Victoria Lord in One Life to Live and Julia Wainwright in Santa Barbara, the soap opera heroine has been moving closer to confronting the disparity between conventional notions of femininity and women's desires.
Drawing on linguistics, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a power-driven, almost sacred, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, soap operas present strong women who resist their stabilizing roles in exclusive, either/or male hierarchies. In breaking the linearity and closure of traditional narrative, daytime serials decenter patriarchal power strategies and articulate instead a feminine politics of inclusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martha Nochimson teaches at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y, and in the undergraduate Department of Film and Television at New York University. Not content with a purely academic approach to her subject, she spent several years as a writer for Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Loving, and Santa Barbara.
Front panel photos courtesy New World Licensing, Cover design: Barbara Jellow, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, Berkeley 94720
Due to recent delivery issues with the USPS I now ship all magazines, digests and paperback books via Priority Mail. $100 of insurance is included in this price. I’m selling my collection of vintage 1950-1980s gay pulp paperback novels, pictorial & hardcore magazines, physique photography, magazines, artwork & other LGBTQ ephemera.
WOMEN'S STUDIES / POPULAR CULTURE / COMMUNICATIONS
"In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power.
Even though soap opera commands a vast and loyal audience, it has been trivialized by the mainstream media and even libeled as a form of pornography designed to keep women in their place. In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Martha Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective and responds to complex issues of women's desires and power by creating strong, active female characters.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a domineering, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, women in soap operas resist their stabilizing role in male hierarchies. In breaking with traditional narrative, soaps create a distinctly feminine, open-ended format capable of tolerating ambiguity and lack of resolution. Soap operas emerge as vessels of a subterranean female power and defy women's "assigned" place in male-designed social structures.
It is time, Nochimson argues, to take a fresh look at one of America's few original art forms. Anyone interested in television, American culture, and gender roles will find No End to Her a startling and compelling read.
From radio's Mary Noble in Backstage Wife to television's Victoria Lord in One Life to Live and Julia Wainwright in Santa Barbara, the soap opera heroine has been moving closer to confronting the disparity between conventional notions of femininity and women's desires.
Drawing on linguistics, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a power-driven, almost sacred, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, soap operas present strong women who resist their stabilizing roles in exclusive, either/or male hierarchies. In breaking the linearity and closure of traditional narrative, daytime serials decenter patriarchal power strategies and articulate instead a feminine politics of inclusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martha Nochimson teaches at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y, and in the undergraduate Department of Film and Television at New York University. Not content with a purely academic approach to her subject, she spent several years as a writer for Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Loving, and Santa Barbara.
Front panel photos courtesy New World Licensing, Cover design: Barbara Jellow, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, Berkeley 94720
Due to recent delivery issues with the USPS I now ship all magazines, digests and paperback books via Priority Mail. $100 of insurance is included in this price. I’m selling my collection of vintage 1950-1980s gay pulp paperback novels, pictorial & hardcore magazines, physique photography, magazines, artwork & other LGBTQ ephemera.
