ABSTRACT
It is about fifteen years since the first feminist television criticism began to appear in Britain and the USA, and it is now possible to begin to construct a history of this criticism, and particularly, a history of its personae, of the characters who are specific to feminist television criticism: the feminist television critic and the female viewer. This pair, and the drama of their identity and difference, seem one of the most interesting productions of feminist television criticism, and in the contours of their relationships I think we can see patterns of feminist intellectual work which are not specific to the criticism of television.
